The Pirates exercised the club option for the 2018 season on outfielder Andrew McCutchen on Friday.
The option is worth $14.5 million. Pittsburgh could either have picked up the option or paid him $1 million and made him a free agent. The 2018 season will be McCutchen's final year under club contractual control.
PITTSBURGH -- General manager Neal Huntington said before the Pirates' final game of the season that manager Clint Hurdle's entire coaching staff would return next season, and the club made it official on Thursday.
Pittsburgh's coaches will be in the dugout for the next two years after their contracts were extended through the 2019 season.