{"id":132962,"date":"2017-11-14T22:05:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T04:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=132962"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:49:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:49:54","slug":"twins-molitor-al-manager-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=132962","title":{"rendered":"Twins Molitor AL Manager of the Year"},"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>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins&#8217; one-year turnaround has led Paul <span style=\"color: red;\">Molitor<\/span> to be named the American League Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers&#8217; Association of America. The Twins went 85-77 this past season and earned their first playoff spot since 2010 after losing 103 games in 2016. Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona received 11 first-place votes to finish second in the balloting, one spot ahead of Houston&#8217;s A.J. Hinch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LovulloTorey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132974 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LovulloTorey-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LovulloTorey-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LovulloTorey-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LovulloTorey.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Torey Lovullo is the National League Manager of the Year after guiding the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 93-69 record and a wild-card berth in his first year at the helm. Lovullo received 18 of 30 first-place votes and 111 points in voting by the Baseball Writers&#8217; Association of America. Dave Roberts of the pennant-winning Los Angeles Dodgers was second, and Colorado&#8217;s Bud Black was third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Twins&#8217; one-year turnaround has led Paul Molitor to be named the American League Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers&#8217; Association of America. The Twins went 85-77 this past season and earned their first playoff spot since 2010 after losing 103 games in 2016. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132962","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=132962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132978,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132962\/revisions\/132978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}