{"id":195623,"date":"2010-01-18T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2010-01-18T18:10:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T23:10:23","slug":"cardinals%e2%80%99-pujols-in-no-rush-to-sign-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/195623","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals\u2019 Pujols in no rush to sign extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports<\/strong>: Albert Pujols said Monday he feels no urgency to negotiate a contract extension with the Cardinals and that he will not carry any pending talks into the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My timetable is when I&#8217;m a free agent,&#8221; said Pujols, who is eligible for free agency after the 2011 season. &#8220;Right now we&#8217;ve got a couple years. I don&#8217;t need to worry about that right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pujols made it clear he is comfortable with the possibility of eventually testing free agency. <span id=\"more-11062\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it comes to that, it&#8217;s fine. That&#8217;s a decision they make,&#8221; Pujols said. &#8220;I want to play baseball. If I have to, I can play somewhere else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the full story<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/blogzone\/commishs-hot-stove\/commishs-hot-stove\/cardinal-beat-updates\/2010\/01\/el-hombre-in-no-rush-for-extension\/\" rel='nofollow'>stltoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article from <a title=\"Cardinals' Pujols in no rush to sign extension\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingsports.com\/2010\/01\/cardinals-pujols-in-no-rush-to-sign-extension.html\"  rel='nofollow'>Tribune News Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/877bI9UbPUgJB6WqQmx9ox0nZPc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/877bI9UbPUgJB6WqQmx9ox0nZPc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/877bI9UbPUgJB6WqQmx9ox0nZPc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/877bI9UbPUgJB6WqQmx9ox0nZPc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=AZc8RzDu5v0:1NRJWnwhQLM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=AZc8RzDu5v0:1NRJWnwhQLM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=AZc8RzDu5v0:1NRJWnwhQLM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=AZc8RzDu5v0:1NRJWnwhQLM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/AZc8RzDu5v0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: Albert Pujols said Monday he feels no urgency to negotiate a contract extension with the Cardinals and that he will not carry any pending talks into the season. &#8220;My timetable is when I&#8217;m a free agent,&#8221; said Pujols, who is eligible for free agency after the 2011 season. &#8220;Right now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}