{"id":388616,"date":"2026-01-05T00:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388616\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T00:32:06","slug":"kansas-city-royals-manager-matt-quatraro-agrees-to-three-year-contract-extension-though-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/388616\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro agrees to three-year contract extension though 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> manager Matt Quatraro has agreed to a three-year contract extension though 2029.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His deal includes a team option for 2030, the Royals said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Quatraro replaced Mike Matheny after the 2022 season and has led the Royals to a 224-262 record in three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kansas City improved from 56-106 during Quatraro\u2019s first season to 86-76 in 2024, and the Royals then went 82-80 last year for their first consecutive winning seasons since 2013-15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Quatraro finished second to Cleveland\u2019s Stephen Vogt in 2024 AL Manager of the Year voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Kansas City Royals manager Matt Quatraro has agreed to a three-year contract extension&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-388616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}