{"id":640410,"date":"2026-03-24T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/640410\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T07:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:36:52","slug":"jj-wetherholt-jose-fermin-thomas-saggese-and-nathan-church-make-cardinals-opening-day-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/640410\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Wetherholt, Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn, Thomas Saggese and Nathan Church Make Cardinals Opening Day Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is not something that I would categorize as a surprise, but at least we have confirmation of what the St. Louis Cardinals Opening Day roster will look like in its final form. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/03\/jj-wetherholt-to-make-cardinals-opening-day-roster.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Trade Rumors<\/a> has confirmed that JJ Wetherholt, Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn, Thomas Saggese and Nathan Church will all head to St. Louis with the Cardinals while Nelson Vel\u00e1zquez will be sent to Triple A Memphis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This is the video that the St. Louis Cardinals just dropped on social media as a tease of the JJ Wetherholt promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not something that I would categorize as a surprise, but at least we have confirmation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,6213,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-640410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis-cardinals-news","12":"tag-st-louis","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","14":"tag-stlouis","15":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116283011512426899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}