{"id":5217,"date":"2013-11-11T22:25:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2013-11-11T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T03:25:11","slug":"reds-to-add-jay-bell-as-bench-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/11\/11\/reds-to-add-jay-bell-as-bench-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds to add Jay Bell as bench coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5218\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/jaybell.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/jaybell.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/jaybell-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/11\/jaybell-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Cincinnati Reds will add Jay Bell as their bench coach. Bell had been serving as the hitting coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>Bell, 47, will have a short stay in Pittsburgh as he will leave for Cincinnati after just one season. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Reds&amp;src=hash\">#Reds<\/a> to hire <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Pirates&amp;src=hash\">#Pirates<\/a> hitting coach Jay Bell as bench coach.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/statuses\/400096038482366464\">November 12, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The addition of Bell is just the latest in a series of moves by the Reds following the departure of Dusty Baker as manager.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Price will be serving in his first year as the manager of the Reds after previously acting as the pitching coach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati Reds will add Jay Bell as their bench coach. Bell had been serving as the hitting coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bell, 47, will have a short stay in Pittsburgh as he will leave for Cincinnati after just one season. Sources: #Reds to hire #Pirates hitting coach Jay Bell as bench coach. &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[384,517],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-5217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cincinnati-reds","9":"tag-jay-bell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}