{"id":5612,"date":"2013-09-28T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-closing-in-on-extension-with-collins\/"},"modified":"2013-09-28T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T15:32:00","slug":"mets-closing-in-on-extension-with-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/mets-closing-in-on-extension-with-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets closing in on extension with Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets plan to announce a two-year contract extension for manager Terry Collins on Monday, multiple sources have told MLB.com.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which will also reportedly include an option for a third season, had yet to be finalized as of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Collins&#8217; current contract is set to expire at the conclusion of this season. The 64-year-old has amassed a 224-260 record over his three years with the Mets, including a 73-87 mark entering the final two games of the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets finished fourth in the NL East in each of Collins&#8217; first two seasons and presently own a one-game edge on Philadelphia for third place.<\/p>\n<p>Collins, who had previously served as a manager for the Houston Astros and Anaheim Angels, owns a career 668-694 record over nine seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushing, NY (Sports Network) &#8211; The New York Mets plan to announce a two-year contract extension for manager Terry Collins on Monday, multiple sources have told MLB.com. The deal, which will also reportedly include an option for a third season, had yet to be finalized as of Saturday. Collins&#8217; current contract is set to expire [&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":[187,59,186],"class_list":["post-5612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-mets","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612","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=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}