{"id":4861,"date":"2013-10-01T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:07:32","slug":"royals-give-ned-yost-contract-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/01\/royals-give-ned-yost-contract-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals give Ned Yost contract extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4862\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4862\" alt=\"Source: Jason Miller\/Getty Images North America\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/nedyost.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/nedyost.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/nedyost-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Jason Miller\/Getty Images North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Kansas City Royals have rewarded manager Ned Yost with a contract extension. Yost guided the Royals to a 86-76 record, their best finish since 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Yost&#8217;s current contract was set to expire so the new deal keeps him around though 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Royals&amp;src=hash\">#Royals<\/a> and manager Ned Yost agree to a 2-year extension, which will run through the 2015 MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kansas City Royals (@Royals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Royals\/statuses\/385056574869209088\">October 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yost has managed the last four seasons with the Royals compiling a 284-329 record. After a successful 2013 season the expectations will be raised in Kansas City next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals have rewarded manager Ned Yost with a contract extension. Yost guided the Royals to a 86-76 record, their best finish since 1989. Yost&#8217;s current contract was set to expire so the new deal keeps him around though 2015. #Royals and manager Ned Yost agree to a 2-year extension, which will run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[137,486],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kansas-city-royals","9":"tag-ned-yost"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861","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=4861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4861"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}