{"id":9631,"date":"2014-12-09T13:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=9631"},"modified":"2014-12-09T13:42:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:42:45","slug":"francisco-liriano-and-pirates-reach-three-year-deal-worth-39-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2014\/12\/09\/francisco-liriano-and-pirates-reach-three-year-deal-worth-39-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Liriano and Pirates reach three-year deal worth $39 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7489\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/franciscoliriano.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/franciscoliriano.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2014\/04\/franciscoliriano-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Pirates will have Francisco Liriano in their rotation again this year after signing the left hander to a three-year deal worth $39 million.<\/p>\n<p>Liriano turned down a qualifying offer ($15.3 million) from the Pirates earlier this offseason as he tried his hand on a larger deal. His new deal give the Pirates a slight price break and adds protection in for the pitcher if he were to be injured.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Source: Francisco Liriano to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pirates?src=hash\">#Pirates<\/a> on a three-year, $39 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Murray (@RobertMurrayMLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertMurrayMLB\/status\/542380034984804352\">December 9, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Liriano was beginning to see his market heat up as Jon Lester and Max Scherzer are closing in on deals. <\/p>\n<p>Liriano owns a 3.20 ERA with 338 strikeouts in 323 1\/3 innings over the last two seasons for the Pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates will have Francisco Liriano in their rotation again this year after signing the left hander to a three-year deal worth $39 million. Liriano turned down a qualifying offer ($15.3 million) from the Pirates earlier this offseason as he tried his hand on a larger deal. His new deal give the Pirates a slight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[110,501,112],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-9631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-francisco-liriano","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631","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=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions\/9632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}