{"id":5059,"date":"2013-10-25T11:09:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2013-10-25T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:09:46","slug":"nationals-to-hire-matt-williams-as-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/10\/25\/nationals-to-hire-matt-williams-as-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals to hire Matt Williams as manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5060\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5060\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5060\" alt=\"AP Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/williamsmatt.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/williamsmatt.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/10\/williamsmatt-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AP Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Washington Nationals are planning to hire Arizona Diamondbacks third base coach, Matt Williams as manager.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when an official announcement will be made.<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#8217;, 47, will be replacing retired Davey Johnson.\u00a0This will be Williams&#8217; first managerial job at any level. He had been on the Diamondbacks&#8217; coaching staff since 2010, first as first base coach then as third base coach.<\/p>\n<p>Bench coach Randy Knorr will remain with the Nationals as their bench coach under Williams.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals are planning to hire Arizona Diamondbacks third base coach, Matt Williams as manager. It is unclear when an official announcement will be made. Williams&#8217;, 47, will be replacing retired Davey Johnson.\u00a0This will be Williams&#8217; first managerial job at any level. He had been on the Diamondbacks&#8217; coaching staff since 2010, first as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":{"0":"post-5059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}