{"id":3861,"date":"2013-08-20T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/as-extend-relationship-with-stockton-ports-through-2016\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T14:29:00","slug":"as-extend-relationship-with-stockton-ports-through-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/as-extend-relationship-with-stockton-ports-through-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s extend relationship with Stockton Ports through 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics extended its player development contract with the Single-A Stockton Ports of the California League through the 2016 season on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this new two-year extension, the A&#8217;s and Stockton had signed a two- year agreement April 15, 2010 for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletics began their association with the Ports in 2005, the same year the Single-A club christened its new 5,200-seat Banner Island Ballpark in downtown Stockton.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Stockton, the Oakland Athletics&#8217; minor league system consists of the Sacramento River Cats (Triple-A; Pacific Coast League), the Midland RockHounds (Double-A; Texas League), the Beloit Snappers (Single-A; Midwest League), the Vermont Lake Monsters (Short-A; New York-Penn League) and the Arizona Athletics (Rookie).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland, CA (Sports Network) &#8211; The Oakland Athletics extended its player development contract with the Single-A Stockton Ports of the California League through the 2016 season on Tuesday. Prior to this new two-year extension, the A&#8217;s and Stockton had signed a two- year agreement April 15, 2010 for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. The Athletics [&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":[41,40,39],"class_list":["post-3861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-athletics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861","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=3861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}