{"id":1341,"date":"2017-10-20T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/2017\/10\/20\/christenson-joins-as-staff-as-bench-coach\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T01:57:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T01:57:52","slug":"christenson-joins-as-staff-as-bench-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/christenson-joins-as-staff-as-bench-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Christenson joins A&#8217;s staff as bench coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland A&#8217;s named Ryan Christenson as bench coach on Bob Melvin&#8217;s coaching staff for the 2018 season, the club announced Thursday. Chip Hale, who moved from third base to bench coach in mid-June, will return to third base. The remainder of the A&#8217;s coaching staff will return in the same roles.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article\/oak\/ryan-christenson-named-as-bench-coach?ymd=20171019&#038;content_id=259061646&#038;vkey=news_oak\">OAK Homepage News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland A&#8217;s named Ryan Christenson as bench coach on Bob Melvin&#8217;s coaching staff for the 2018 season, the club announced Thursday. Chip Hale, who moved from third base to bench coach in mid-June, will return to third base. The remainder of the A&#8217;s coaching staff will return in the same roles. OAK Homepage News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[44,2250,785,597,837],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oakland-athletics","tag-bench","tag-christenson","tag-coach","tag-joins","tag-staff"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}