The American League Champion Kansas City Royals extended the contract of manager Ned Yost by one year through the 2016 season on Tuesday. Yost’s contract had been due to expire at the end of the 2015 season.
Yost who was named manager of the Royals on May 12, 2010, led Kansas City to its first postseason appearance since 1985 last season which included an eight-game winning streak that clinched the AL pennant. The Royals then fell to the San Francisco Giants in a riveting seven-game World Series.
Yost will enter the 2015 season with 373 wins. Already the most-tenured manager in club history he is third on the all-time wins list behind the late Dick Howser (404) and Whitey Herzog (410).
