{"id":130571,"date":"2017-10-09T16:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130571"},"modified":"2017-10-10T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T19:41:00","slug":"twin-molitor-agree-to-3-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=130571","title":{"rendered":"Twins, Molitor agree to 3 year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MolitorPaul-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-130638\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MolitorPaul-1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MolitorPaul-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MolitorPaul-1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MolitorPaul-1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/MolitorPaul-1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins are bringing back Paul Molitor as manager after he led a historic turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins announced Monday that Molitor is getting a new three-year deal that keeps him under contract through 2020. They went 85-77 this season, becoming the first team to make the playoffs after losing at least 100 games the previous year. They lost to the New York Yankees in the AL wild-card game last week.<\/p>\n<p>New executives Derek Falvey and Thad Levine never addressed Molitor&#8217;s future during the season. That led to some uncertainty about whether they would retain a manager they inherited when they took over.<\/p>\n<p>But the two sides reached agreement on a new deal less than a week after the season ended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins are bringing back Paul Molitor as manager after he led a historic turnaround. The Twins announced Monday that Molitor is getting a new three-year deal that keeps him under contract through 2020. They went 85-77 this season, becoming the first team to make the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130571"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130639,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130571\/revisions\/130639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}