{"id":9194,"date":"2014-10-16T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2014-10-16T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:34:16","slug":"rangers-hire-jeff-banister-as-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/10\/16\/rangers-hire-jeff-banister-as-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers hire Jeff Banister as new manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9195 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/jeffbanister.jpg\" alt=\"jeffbanister\" width=\"298\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/jeffbanister.jpg 436w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/10\/jeffbanister-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>Jeff Baniser has been hired as the manager of the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Banister has spent the last 29 years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization as either a player or coach. His first shot at managing at the big league level will occur with the Rangers who have arguably the best roster of any of the available openings.<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old Banister appeared in just one big league game during his career. That game came in 1991 when he got a hit in his only at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>Banister spent seven seasons in the Pirates minor league system compiling a .247\/.307\/.357 line with 37 home runs and 204 RBI.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rangers?src=hash\">#Rangers<\/a> to hire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pirates?src=hash\">#Pirates<\/a>\u2019 Banister as manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/522771960242397185\">October 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Rangers had narrowed their search to Baniser, Kevin Cash and Tim Bogar a week ago. Ron Washington stepped down in early September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Baniser has been hired as the manager of the Texas Rangers. Banister has spent the last 29 years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization as either a player or coach. His first shot at managing at the big league level will occur with the Rangers who have arguably the best roster of any of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","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=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9196,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions\/9196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}