{"id":4840,"date":"2013-09-30T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T16:03:54","slug":"twins-opt-to-keep-ron-gardenhire-reach-new-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/09\/30\/twins-opt-to-keep-ron-gardenhire-reach-new-two-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins opt to keep Ron Gardenhire, reach new two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4841\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4841\" alt=\"Source: Jason Miller\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/rongradenhire.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/rongradenhire.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/09\/rongradenhire-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jason Miller\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Minnesota Twins have not had a lot of success in recent years but the team still values manager Ron Gardenhire. Multiple news outlets are reporting that the Twins will retain Gardenhire by giving him a two-year extension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Sources tell me and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi\">@jonmorosi<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Twins&amp;src=hash\">#Twins<\/a> are retaining Gardenhire. Believed to be two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/384704015826968576\">September 30, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An official press conference is to take place at Target Field on Monday at 2:30 pm CT.<\/p>\n<p>Gardenhire has managed the Twins since 2002 and has guided them to six AL Central titles but the Twins are just 195-291 since the start of 2011. During Gardenhire&#8217;s 12 years with the team he has a 998-947 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Twins have not had a lot of success in recent years but the team still values manager Ron Gardenhire. Multiple news outlets are reporting that the Twins will retain Gardenhire by giving him a two-year extension. Sources tell me and @jonmorosi that #Twins are retaining Gardenhire. Believed to be two-year deal. \u2014 Ken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[134,483],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-minnesota-twins","9":"tag-ron-gardenhire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840","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=4840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4840"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}