{"id":27901,"date":"2025-02-28T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/?p=27901"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:26:30","slug":"goldschmidt-believes-cardinals-can-complete-unfinished-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/goldschmidt-believes-cardinals-can-complete-unfinished-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldschmidt believes Cardinals can complete unfinished business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Paul Goldschmidt laments the struggles of the past two seasons that ultimately led to his painful exit from the Cardinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had his power and productivity numbers been significantly better and had St.<br>\n<br> Louis not missed the playoffs in 2023 and \u201824, the now-37-year-old Goldschmidt might still be wearing the birds on the bat of the Cardinals instead of wearing the pinstripes of the Yankees.<br>\n<br> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many ways, it\u2019s as if Goldschmidt\u2019s emotions are battling one another as he adjusts to being in a lineup with Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton instead of one with close friend Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Goldschmidt laments the struggles of the past two seasons that ultimately led to his painful exit from the Cardinals. Had his power and productivity numbers been significantly better and had St. Louis not missed the playoffs in 2023 and \u201824, the now-37-year-old Goldschmidt might still be wearing the birds on the bat of the Cardinals instead of wearing the pinstripes of the Yankees. In many ways, it\u2019s as if Goldschmidt\u2019s emotions are battling one another as he adjusts to being in a lineup with Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton instead of one with close friend Nolan Arenado and Willson Contreras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,249,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-sport-football-news","category-mlb-predictions-football-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Goldschmidt believes Cardinals can complete unfinished business - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Goldschmidt talks about his struggles in the past two seasons that made him decide to leave the Cardinals despite wanting to stay back.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/goldschmidt-believes-cardinals-can-complete-unfinished-business\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Goldschmidt believes Cardinals can complete unfinished business - 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