{"id":313,"date":"2012-10-17T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=313"},"modified":"2012-10-17T20:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T00:27:03","slug":"davey-johnson-hopes-to-return-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/10\/17\/davey-johnson-hopes-to-return-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Davey Johnson hopes to return to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-316\" title=\"daveyjohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/daveyjohnson-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/daveyjohnson-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/10\/daveyjohnson.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Washington Nationals were the surprise team of the year. Davey Johnson led the team to their first post season appearance and believes that there is unfinished business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there some unfinished business? Yeah, there&#8217;s some unfinished business. But that&#8217;ll be up to ownership. That ball is in their court. I don&#8217;t have a bad feeling, and I don&#8217;t mind waiting until November like last year,&#8221; he told the Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>While Johnson understands the criticism about his late inning decisions in Game 5 he stands by them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any manager in baseball, they will tell you, if you can get to your closer with a lead, you&#8217;ve done good. I don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s a&#8211; what anybody else thinks. If it&#8217;s a one-run lead, a two-run lead, you did it,&#8221; he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>He said he told the players he was proud of them despite the playoff loss. The Nationals finished with the best record in baseball at 98-64 and won their first NL East title.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson became the manager of the Nationals in 2011 after Jim Riggleman quit mid-season when the team would not tender him a contract for 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals were the surprise team of the year. Davey Johnson led the team to their first post season appearance and believes that there is unfinished business. &#8220;Is there some unfinished business? Yeah, there&#8217;s some unfinished business. But that&#8217;ll be up to ownership. That ball is in their court. I don&#8217;t have a bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[51],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-davey-johnson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}