{"id":453669,"date":"2023-08-01T17:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453669"},"modified":"2023-08-01T17:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:40:08","slug":"toronto-acquires-dejong-from-st-louis-after-bichettes-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/toronto-acquires-dejong-from-st-louis-after-bichettes-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto acquires DeJong from St. Louis after Bichette&#8217;s injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays got Paul DeJong from the St. Louis Cardinals before the end of the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Blue Jays reportedly acquire SS Paul DeJong from the Cardinals, per MLB Network Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@jonmorosi<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DBPF8DXquq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DBPF8DXquq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1686432497616244753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cardinals will receive Matt Svanson in the trade, as the Canadian MLB franchise will also get cash considerations. To clear a room on the squad, Jordan Luplow was designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange happened 24 hours after Toronto\u2019s All-Star shortstop Bo Bichette left the match vs. the Baltimore Orioles with a right knee injury. The Orioles won that game.<\/p>\n<p>The league\u2019s exchange deadline is at 6 pm ET on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>DeJong is batting .233 in the current campaign with 13 homers and 32 runs batted in.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was an All-Star in 2019 when he struck a career-high 30 homers with 78 runs batted in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Blue Jays got Paul DeJong from the St. Louis Cardinals before the end of the trade deadline. The Blue Jays reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":453670,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,18517],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[20734,18519,12402],"acf":{"announce":"The Blue Jays signed the shortstop player.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453669"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453669"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}