{"id":478797,"date":"2024-02-23T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=478797"},"modified":"2024-02-23T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:47:47","slug":"keller-agrees-on-a-5-year-extension-with-the-pirates","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/keller-agrees-on-a-5-year-extension-with-the-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller agrees on a 5-year extension with the Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Keller and the Pittsburgh Pirates agree on a 5-year, 77 million-dollar deal extension, securing another young core player as the franchise continues to try to return to the playoffs for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in almost 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>The contract, which starts this season and finishes after the 2028 campaign, will pay Mitch 7.5 million dollars this year, more than 2 million dollars above where he had settled with the organization in arbitration. In what would have been his final season of arbitration in 2025, the right-hander will get 15 million dollars. For the 3 free agent campaigns Pittsburgh bought out, they will reward him with 16.5, 18, and 20 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RHP Mitch Keller and the Pirates have agreed to a 5-year contract extension, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JeffPassan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keller made his first All-Star appearance last season and finished 13-9 with a 4.21 ERA. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CiZhcOl7ol\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CiZhcOl7ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/1760687062729257223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He had a breakout 2023 campaign in which he was selected for the All-Star match for the 1st time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Mitch, who would have been a free agent after the 2025 campaign, is the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> core player of the franchise to ink an extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Keller and the Pittsburgh Pirates agree on a 5-year, 77 million-dollar deal extension, securing another young core player as the franchise continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":478798,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,18787],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[22694,18788,12402],"acf":{"announce":"The right-hander will remain with Pittsburgh for 5 more seasons.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478801,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/478797\/revisions\/478801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478797"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=478797"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=478797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}