{"id":6370,"date":"2013-10-15T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-give-weiss-three-year-extension\/"},"modified":"2013-10-15T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T12:57:00","slug":"rockies-give-weiss-three-year-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/rockies-give-weiss-three-year-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies give Weiss three-year extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Rockies and manager Walt Weiss have agreed to a three-year contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the new deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss spent his first season as the club&#8217;s skipper with only a one-year contract and guided the Rockies to a record of 74-88. Colorado finished last in the National League West for the second straight year, but had a 10-game improvement from 2012.<\/p>\n<p>A former shortstop with the Rockies from 1994-97, Weiss had never been a manager on any professional level prior to 2013. He spent time in Colorado&#8217;s front office as a special assistant to the general manager from 2002-08 after retiring as a player in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss was the American League&#8217;s top rookie in 1988 with Oakland and was part of four World Series teams, including a 1989 championship with the Athletics. He batted .258 in 14 seasons with Oakland, Florida, Colorado and Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver, CO (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Colorado Rockies and manager Walt Weiss have agreed to a three-year contract extension. Terms of the new deal were not disclosed. Weiss spent his first season as the club&#8217;s skipper with only a one-year contract and guided the Rockies to a record of 74-88. Colorado finished last in the National [&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":[210,209,211],"class_list":["post-6370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-rockies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370","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=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}