{"id":2316,"date":"2018-11-08T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/as-sign-beane-forst-melvin-to-extensions\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T10:00:16","slug":"as-sign-beane-forst-melvin-to-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/as-sign-beane-forst-melvin-to-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Athletics Hold on to their Management Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following\u00a0on from a surprise\u00a0season the A&#8217;s have\u00a0made the smart move of tying in general manager David Forst and manager Bob Melvin with long-term contract extensions. With executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane holding a stake in the club and thus unlikely to disappear, this means the main body of their\u00a0senior management team will remain intact at least until 2021. Now it&#8217;s down to the more pressing matter of sorting out the roster for 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2335\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2335\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/11\/Billy-Beane-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland Athletics Billy Beane\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/11\/Billy-Beane-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/11\/Billy-Beane-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/11\/Billy-Beane-723x1024.jpg 723w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/11\/Billy-Beane-624x884.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/11\/Billy-Beane-750x1062.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2018\/11\/Billy-Beane.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Kosmayer\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following\u00a0on from a surprise\u00a0season the A&#8217;s have\u00a0made the smart move of tying in general manager David Forst and manager Bob Melvin with long-term contract extensions. With executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane holding a stake in the club and thus unlikely to disappear, this means the main body of their\u00a0senior management team will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2335,"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":[2542],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oakland-athletics","tag-oakland-athletics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}