{"id":25030,"date":"2014-10-27T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-hire-seitzer-as-hitting-coach\/"},"modified":"2014-10-27T15:48:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T15:48:00","slug":"braves-hire-seitzer-as-hitting-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/braves-hire-seitzer-as-hitting-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves hire Seitzer as hitting coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have hired Kevin Seitzer to replace Greg Walker as hitting coach.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old Seitzer was the hitting coach for the Toronto Blue Jays this past season. He also served in a similar position for the Kansas City Royals from 2009-12 and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin is a well-respected, experienced hitting coach,&#8221; Braves president of baseball operations John Hart said in a statement Monday. &#8220;He was a great player and as a coach he has a skill set that will benefit our club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A two-time All-Star, Seitzer batted .295 in 12 seasons with the Royals, Milwaukee, Oakland and Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Walker resigned after the Braves finished ahead of only San Diego in the majors with 573 runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves also named Jose Castro the assistant hitting coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta, GA (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Atlanta Braves have hired Kevin Seitzer to replace Greg Walker as hitting coach. The 52-year-old Seitzer was the hitting coach for the Toronto Blue Jays this past season. He also served in a similar position for the Kansas City Royals from 2009-12 and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2007. &#8220;Kevin is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,17,19],"class_list":["post-25030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-braves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}