{"id":460590,"date":"2026-02-05T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460590\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:29:07","slug":"pirates-to-sign-jose-urquidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460590\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates To Sign Jos\u00e9 Urquidy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates and right-hander <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/urquijo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-06_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jos\u00e9 Urquidy<\/a> are in agreement on a contract, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillSammon\/status\/2019473822521368665\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a> Will Sammon of The Athletic. He\u2019ll earn $1.5MM on a one-year deal, Jon Heyman of the New York Post <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2019475642274709521\" rel=\"nofollow\">adds<\/a>. Urquidy, an Octagon client, can boost that salary further via incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh generated headlines yesterday when they <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/pirates-rumors-framber-valdez-free-agent.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">jumped in as a late entrant<\/a> in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/v\/valdefr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-04_br\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Framber Valdez<\/a> bidding before he ultimately <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/tigers-framber-valdez-agree-to-three-year-deal.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">went to the Tigers last night<\/a>. They\u2019ll still add a former Astros hurler to reunite with new pitching coach Bill Murphy, though on a much smaller scale. Murphy coached Urquidy with Houston from 2021-24.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates and right-hander Jos\u00e9 Urquidy are in agreement on a contract, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,236674,591,85],"class_list":["post-460590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jose-urquidy","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460590","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=460590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}