{"id":951,"date":"2012-12-21T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=951"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T16:00:09","slug":"pirates-sign-liriano-to-two-year-contract-worth-14-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2012\/12\/21\/pirates-sign-liriano-to-two-year-contract-worth-14-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates sign Liriano to two-year contract worth $14 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-763\" alt=\"franciscoliriano\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/franciscoliriano.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/franciscoliriano.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/franciscoliriano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have been trying to land players in free agency. One player they have signed is pitcher Francisco Liriano. Liriano will make $14 million over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Liriano had a 5.34 ERA while splitting time between the Twins and White Sox.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates are hoping that Liriano returns to the form he had in 2010 when he had a 3.62 ERA and racked up 201 strike outs. He is the second noticeable signing for the Pirates who also signed catcher Russell Martin this off season.<\/p>\n<p>Liriano&#8217;s former team, the Twins, were also courting the left hander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have been trying to land players in free agency. One player they have signed is pitcher Francisco Liriano. Liriano will make $14 million over the next two years. Last season Liriano had a 5.34 ERA while splitting time between the Twins and White Sox. The Pirates are hoping that Liriano returns to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[110,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-francisco-liriano","9":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}