{"id":7577,"date":"2013-11-07T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-officially-name-renteria-new-manager\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:45:05","slug":"cubs-officially-name-renteria-new-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/cubs-officially-name-renteria-new-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs officially name Renteria new manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs named Rick Renteria their new manager on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Renteria, who has no prior managerial experience in the majors, agreed to terms on a three-year contract with club options in 2017 and 2018. He becomes the Cubs&#8217; third skipper since Lou Piniella retired late in the 2010 season, following brief stints by Mike Quade and Dale Sveum.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old Renteria joins the Cubs after spending the past six seasons as a member of the San Diego Padres&#8217; coaching staff. He served as the first base coach from 2008-10 before taking over the bench coach duties the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>A California native, Renteria was a minor league manager in the farm systems of the Marlins and Padres for eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first round of the 1980 draft, the former infielder batted .237 in 184 career major league games with the Pirates, Mariners and Marlins.<\/p>\n<p>The Cubs were 127-197 in two seasons under Sveum, including a 66-96 mark in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The Chicago Cubs named Rick Renteria their new manager on Thursday. Renteria, who has no prior managerial experience in the majors, agreed to terms on a three-year contract with club options in 2017 and 2018. He becomes the Cubs&#8217; third skipper since Lou Piniella retired late in the 2010 season, following [&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":[30,207,208],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-cubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","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=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}