{"id":7153,"date":"2013-10-31T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-hire-seitzer-as-hitting-coach\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:03:00","slug":"blue-jays-hire-seitzer-as-hitting-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/blue-jays-hire-seitzer-as-hitting-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays hire Seitzer as hitting coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays named Kevin Seitzer hitting coach on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Seitzer, 51, joins manager John Gibbons&#8217; staff after most recently serving a similar role with the Kansas City Royals from 2009-12.<\/p>\n<p>A runner-up to unanimous winner Mark McGwire for the 1987 AL Rookie of the Year Award, the former third baseman hit .295 with 74 homers, 285 doubles and 613 RBI during his 12-year major league career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, ON (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Toronto Blue Jays named Kevin Seitzer hitting coach on Thursday. Seitzer, 51, joins manager John Gibbons&#8217; staff after most recently serving a similar role with the Kansas City Royals from 2009-12. A runner-up to unanimous winner Mark McGwire for the 1987 AL Rookie of the Year Award, the former third [&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":[116,115,114],"class_list":["post-7153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-blue-jays","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153","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=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}