{"id":6195,"date":"2014-02-03T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6195"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T21:24:34","slug":"diamondbacks-give-extension-to-kevin-towers-and-kirk-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/02\/03\/diamondbacks-give-extension-to-kevin-towers-and-kirk-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks give extensions to Kevin Towers and Kirk Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/kirkgibson.jpg\" alt=\"kirkgibson\" width=\"594\" height=\"404\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/kirkgibson.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/02\/kirkgibson-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Arizona Diamondbacks have given extensions to general manager Kevin Towers and manager Kirk Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deals for Towers and Gibson are currently unknown as it was the team who broke the news via it&#8217;s twitter account. Both were entering the final year of their contracts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Dbacks&amp;src=hash\">#Dbacks<\/a> reach agreement w\/ Kevin Towers and Kirk Gibson for contract extensions beyond 2014 (terms not disclosed) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/gz7UgUmnF0\">pic.twitter.com\/gz7UgUmnF0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dbacks\/statuses\/430446059790159872\">February 3, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Gibson has been the manager of the Diamondbacks since mid-2010 while Towers joined not too long after. That both are locked up to extensions will avoid any complication about lame duck status. <\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks were 81-81 last season. Since Gibson took over the team is a combined 290-279.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arizona Diamondbacks have given extensions to general manager Kevin Towers and manager Kirk Gibson. Terms of the deals for Towers and Gibson are currently unknown as it was the team who broke the news via it&#8217;s twitter account. Both were entering the final year of their contracts. #Dbacks reach agreement w\/ Kevin Towers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[125,503,625,624,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-front","tag-kevin-towers","tag-kirk-gibson","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195","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=6195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6195"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}