{"id":6871,"date":"2014-03-26T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=6871"},"modified":"2014-03-26T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T14:59:13","slug":"pirates-reach-six-year-extension-with-starling-marte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/03\/26\/pirates-reach-six-year-extension-with-starling-marte\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates reach six-year extension with Starling Marte"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6872\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/starlingmarte.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6872\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/starlingmarte.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/03\/starlingmarte-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Priates have reached a six-year extension with outfielder Starling Marte.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB NEtwork Radio&#8217;s Jim Duquete the deal is worth $31 million. The contract will include two option years and buys out at-least two years of free agency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source confirmed that the Marte deal is for 31 million &#8211; over 6 years.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Duquette (@Jim_Duquette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Duquette\/statuses\/448828405325504512\">March 26, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last season Marte hit .280\/.343\/.441 with 12 home runs and 35 RBI with 83 runs scored and 41 stolen bases in 135 games for the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>With Andrew McCutchen locked out and the likes of Gregory Polano and Austin Meadows on the way to the majors, the Pirates are looking stable in the outfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Priates have reached a six-year extension with outfielder Starling Marte. According to MLB NEtwork Radio&#8217;s Jim Duquete the deal is worth $31 million. The contract will include two option years and buys out at-least two years of free agency. Source confirmed that the Marte deal is for 31 million &#8211; over 6 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,501,112,690],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":["post-6871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-starling-marte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6873,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6871\/revisions\/6873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6871"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}