{"id":1189,"date":"2013-01-21T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:39:13","slug":"francisco-liriano-and-pirates-finalize-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/01\/21\/francisco-liriano-and-pirates-finalize-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Liriano and Pirates finalize deal"},"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=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/franciscoliriano.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2012\/12\/franciscoliriano-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates and left handed pitcher Francisco Liriano have finalized a two-year deal. Liriano and the Pirates were said to have agreed to a deal a month ago but concerns about the status of his arm put the deal in doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Liriano will make $12.75 million over the two year deal, previously he was set to make $14 million. Should Liriano miss time due to an\u00a0 injury to his right (non-throwing) shoulder he will also agree to reduce his salary.<\/p>\n<p>Last season Liriano compiled a 5.37 ERA and a 1.147 WHIP in 156 2\/3 innings for the Minnesota Twins. He will occupy a rotation spot for the Pirates next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates and left handed pitcher Francisco Liriano have finalized a two-year deal. Liriano and the Pirates were said to have agreed to a deal a month ago but concerns about the status of his arm put the deal in doubt. Liriano will make $12.75 million over the two year deal, previously he was [&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-1189","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":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}