{"id":461187,"date":"2023-09-30T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461187"},"modified":"2023-09-30T06:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T10:39:48","slug":"san-francisco-giants-fire-head-coach-kapler","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/san-francisco-giants-fire-head-coach-kapler\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants fire head coach Kapler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants dismissed manager Gabe Kapler on Friday, the 1<sup>st<\/sup> head coaching change this year, with 3 days left in the campaign and the organization eliminated from the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Giants are 78-81 going into a campaign-ending series vs. the NL West champ LA Rodgers. Gabe (48) had a 295-248 record over 4 years at the helm of the team, but his only season with a positive record was 2021 when the franchise triumphed in a franchise-record 107 matches and the NL West trophy.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco lost in the NL Division series that campaign to Dodgers, then finished 81-81 last season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Gabe Kapler is out as manager of the San Francisco Giants, sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JeffPassan<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kZKmpPSES2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kZKmpPSES2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1707869959437566154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After making this recommendation to the owner and receiving their positive answer, I met with Kapler today to inform him that he is fired,&#8221; San Francisco President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi shared.<\/p>\n<p>Gabe\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> campaign with the Giants was the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants dismissed manager Gabe Kapler on Friday, the 1st head coaching change this year, with 3 days left in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":461188,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,16903],"news_category":[16708,16715],"gn_keywords":[21583,18537,12402],"acf":{"announce":"The MLB franchise fired the manager after 4 seasons.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461190,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461187\/revisions\/461190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461187"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461187"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}