{"id":369535,"date":"2025-12-24T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:34:11","slug":"sources-fairbanks-agrees-to-1-year-13m-deal-with-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369535\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Fairbanks agrees to 1-year, $13M deal with Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dec 24, 2025, 01:17 PM ET<\/p>\n

Reliever Pete Fairbanks<\/a> and the Miami Marlins<\/a> are in agreement on a one-year, $13 million contract, sources confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n

Fairbanks, 32, had an $11 million option turned down by the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> and went into the open market and beat that number by $2 million.<\/p>\n

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He was one of the top relievers available in the market for high-leverage options. As the primary closer for the Rays over the past four seasons, Fairbanks saved 83 games and posted a 2.83 ERA, striking out 332 and walking 103 in 265\u2153 innings.<\/p>\n

With a fastball that sits at 97 mph, a well-above-average slider and a cutter that was added midseason in 2025 and graded out as an elite pitch, Fairbanks was expected to draw multiyear interest.<\/p>\n

Fairbanks’ best full season came in 2023, when he struck out 13.5 batters per nine innings and had greater than an 11-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Amid questions about his durability after he never had thrown more than 45\u2153 innings in a season, Fairbanks booked a career-best 60\u2153 innings in 2025 and logged a career-high 27 saves.<\/p>\n

The Athletic first reported the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 24, 2025, 01:17 PM ET Reliever Pete Fairbanks and the Miami Marlins are in agreement on a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-369535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}