{"id":6702,"date":"2013-10-22T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-add-molitor-to-coaching-staff\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T12:12:00","slug":"twins-add-molitor-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/twins-add-molitor-to-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins add Molitor to coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins announced on Tuesday that Hall of Famer Paul Molitor has been added to manager Ron Gardenhire&#8217;s staff.<\/p>\n<p>Molitor will oversee base running, bunting and infield instruction. He will also assist with in-game strategy from the dugout.<\/p>\n<p>Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004, Molitor played a combined 21 seasons for the Brewers, Blue Jays and Twins. He had a career .306 batting average with 234 home runs and 1,307 RBI.<\/p>\n<p>His 3,319 career hits is good enough for ninth on the all-time list, while his 605 career doubles ranks him 11th all-time. He was a seven-time All-Star and the MVP of the 1993 World Series with Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota native was last part of a major league staff in 2004 when he was the hitting coach for the Seattle Mariners. He also served as a big league coach for the Twins in 2000 and 2001 under Tom Kelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Minnesota Twins announced on Tuesday that Hall of Famer Paul Molitor has been added to manager Ron Gardenhire&#8217;s staff. Molitor will oversee base running, bunting and infield instruction. He will also assist with in-game strategy from the dugout. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004, Molitor played a combined [&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":[72,214,215],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-twins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","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=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}