Ned Yost gets extension through 2016

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The American League champion Royals and Ned Yost have agreed to a one-year contract extension that will keep the manager with the franchise through the 2016 season.

Yost, 60, said after leading the Royals to an improbable pennant last season that he hoped to manage a few more years. His contract had been set to expire after the 2015 season.

He became the Royals' manager in May 2010 and presided over a massive rebuilding effort that culminated with the end of a 29-year playoff drought. The Royals took the San Francisco Giants to the seventh game of the World Series before their season finally ended.

The longest-tenured manager in club history, Yost soon will become its winningest. He has 373 victories, trailing only Dick Howser (404) and Whitey Herzog (410).