{"id":5145,"date":"2012-10-08T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2012-10-08T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:28:59","slug":"terry-francona-new-indians-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=5145","title":{"rendered":"Terry Francona, New Indians Skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Terryfrancona.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5146\" title=\"Terry Francona\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Terryfrancona.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Terry Francona has been introduced as manager of the Cleveland Indians, who crashed from contention this season with the worst month in franchise history.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francona was hired over the weekend by the Indians, signing a<br \/>\nfour-year contract.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old was chosen over Sandy Alomar Jr., who served as the club&#8217;s final six games after Manny Acta was fired.<\/p>\n<p>Francona takes overs an Indians team that went 68-94, the<br \/>\nthird time in the past four seasons they have lost at least 90<br \/>\ngames.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francona led Boston to two World Series titles and five straight<br \/>\nplayoff appearances. He was not brought back by the Red Sox<br \/>\nfollowing the team&#8217;s historic September collapse in 2011.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He previously worked in Cleveland&#8217;s front office, and Francona<br \/>\nsaid the chance to work again with close friends was the most<br \/>\nintriguing aspect of managing the Indians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 CLEVELAND (AP) &#8211; Terry Francona has been introduced as manager of the Cleveland Indians, who crashed from contention this season with the worst month in franchise history. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Francona was hired over the weekend by the Indians, signing a four-year contract. The 53-year-old was chosen over Sandy Alomar Jr., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","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\/5145","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=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5148,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}