{"id":627703,"date":"2023-02-03T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=627703"},"modified":"2023-02-03T13:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:13:52","slug":"new-st-louis-cardinals-hitting-coach-knows-he-ll-take-heat-and-he-s-ok-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/new-st-louis-cardinals-hitting-coach-knows-he-ll-take-heat-and-he-s-ok-with-that","title":{"rendered":"New St. Louis Cardinals hitting coach knows he&#8217;ll take heat. And he&#8217;s OK with that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one is asking for sympathy for the plight of Major League hitting coaches, but there&#8217;s not often a large amount of fairness in their jobs. They aren&#8217;t, after all, at the plate with a bat in their hands, and no one seems to notice when things are going well. When things are going poorly, though, they&#8217;re often among the first to come under scrutiny, and as the Cardinals found out first hand that winter, not everyone is prepared to handle that scrutiny as well as they might hope. Turner Ward gets all that. He&#8217;s been here and done the job before, and he&#8217;s more than ready to jump into his newest assignment. &#8220;We share the responsibility, but ultimately it comes down to me,&#8221; Ward said of his new hitting staff, which includes assistants Brandon Allen and Daniel Nicolaisen. &#8220;Players make you better as a coach, and of course you want that to be the same from this end. We<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We share the responsibility, but ultimately it comes down to me,&#8221; Turner Ward said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}