{"id":246586,"date":"2014-12-09T16:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whygavs.com\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2014-12-09T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:48:23","slug":"pirates-re-sign-francisco-liriano-to-three-year39-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/pirates-re-sign-francisco-liriano-to-three-year39-million-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates re-sign Francisco Liriano to three-year\/$39 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been grading for like six hours now and my brain feels like chewed bubblegum, so I&#8217;m going to save the analysis for after dinner, but the Pirates re-signed Francisco Liriano to a three-year deal with $39 million this afternoon (first report <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertMurrayMLB\/status\/542380034984804352\">here<\/a>, MLB Trade Rumors round-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2014\/12\/pirates-to-re-sign-francisco-liriano.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Such is the eternal state of the Pittsburgh Pirates that I can tell you that a 3-year\/$39 million deal is the largest free-agent deal in team history without even having to check (I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the first or only person to make that observation today), but hey, every bar has to be raised from somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, like I said, more later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been grading for like six hours now and my brain feels like chewed bubblegum, so I&#8217;m going to save&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13594879],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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