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BREAKING: Josh Harrison signs new deal with Pittsburgh Pirates

Jason Rollison
Jason Rollison

Rum Bunter

Josh Harrison will now be a Pittsburgh Pirate until at least 2018, and potentially for the rest of this decade, this according to a tweet from the ballclub themselves:

At the time of this writing, financial terms have not been disclosed.  The deal is an interesting one, as it shows that the Pittsburgh Pirates think highly enough of Josh Harrison coming off of one career year that they felt comfortable locking him up to a long-term deal.  As is well-known, Harrison finished second in the NL Batting Title race in 2014, and is now the club’s everyday third basemen.  Harrison has stated all along that once he got the chance to play everyday, good things will happen for the club.  And now, that confidence and, more importantly, the results, have earned him a new contract to go along with national accolades.

Rum Bunter will have more analysis of this deal, including financial details as they become available.

UPDATE:  Rob Biertempfel of the Tribune Review, has all of the financial details:

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Jason Rollison

Jason Rollison

Jason Rollison is the prototypical young Pirates commentator Old enough to remember "Game 7" in 1992 yet young enough not to become jaded with baseball completely from 1993-2013. Jason started with Rum Bunter as a contributor in December of 2014 and is now relishing his role as a co-editor. When it comes to analyzing baseball, he likes to take a middle-of-the-road approach, with one foot on the analytics side of the fence and the other on the old-school side. Having said that, he is a sucker for pitchf/x.Jason has appeared as a phone-in and in-studio guests in numerous outlets, including Trib Live Radio and 93.7 The Fan (CBS Sports Radio)