{"id":5056,"date":"2012-10-05T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2012-10-05T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T21:49:27","slug":"twins-start-making-changes-fire-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5056","title":{"rendered":"Twins Start Making Changes, Fire Coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1317\" title=\"twinslogo\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/twonslogo1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins have fired three coaches and their head athletic trainer in the wake of a second straight last-place finish in the AL Central.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins announced the moves yesterday. Longtime bullpen coach Rick Stelmaszek, third base coach Steve Liddle, first base coach Jerry White and head athletic trainer Rick McWane did not have their contracts renewed for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Hitting coach Joe Vavra and bench coach Scott Ullger will stay on the staff but in different roles.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Manager Ron Gardenhire will enter the final year of his contract<br \/>\nwithout an extension.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Minnesota Twins general manager Terry Ryan has removed the interim tag from his title.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ryan said Friday he&#8217;s &#8220;all set and committed and ready to go&#8221;<br \/>\nto try to turn around the Twins, who lost 96 games this season and<br \/>\n99 the year before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u3000In other MLB Firings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BOSTON (AP) &#8211; The Boston Red Sox have fired manager Bobby<\/p>\n<p>Valentine after one season and a record of 69-93.<\/p>\n<p>He replaced the fired Terry Francona after last season and wasn&#8217;t able to turn<\/p>\n<p>things around for the BoSox.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) &#8211; The Royals have chosen not to renew the<\/p>\n<p>contract of hitting coach Kevin Seitzer after the team finished<\/p>\n<p>72-90 for its ninth consecutive losing season.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>SEATTLE (AP) &#8211; The Seattle Mariners will not retain hitting<\/p>\n<p>coach Chris Chambliss for 2013 after another season during which<\/p>\n<p>their offense was among the worst in baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins have fired three coaches and their head athletic trainer in the wake of a second straight last-place finish in the AL Central. The Twins announced the moves yesterday. Longtime bullpen coach Rick Stelmaszek, third base coach Steve Liddle, first base coach Jerry White and [&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-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5089,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}