{"id":460925,"date":"2026-02-05T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:01:08","slug":"reports-jose-urquidy-pirates-agree-to-1-5m-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/460925\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Jose Urquidy, Pirates agree to $1.5M, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pitcher <a data-player-guid=\"0d3c7ff1-7b06-156a-2fc0-81c4a8df7b47\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35759\/jose-urquidy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Urquidy<\/a> and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5b8fc9be-4020-52c6-aa28-9a0f2d4383e0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/pit\/pittsburgh-pirates\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> agreed Thursday to a $1.5 million, one-year contract, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-year-old right-hander, Urquidy adds depth to the Pirates staff headed by NL Cy Young Award winner <a data-player-guid=\"cdfd69c1-1b9b-30fe-acf4-aad457b0850e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4719507\/paul-skenes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Skenes<\/a> and gives the team roster flexibility because he can be optioned to the minor leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47830364\/mike-clevinger-agrees-minor-league-contract-pirates\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/r1338847_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Urquidy had Tommy John surgery on June 5, 2024, while with Houston, signed a $1 million, one-year deal with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b27c64bf-4f18-f713-ba06-db1bce2394e7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/det\/detroit-tigers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Tigers<\/a> last March and returned to the major leagues on Sept. 14. He made two big league relief appearances last year and had a 7.71 ERA over 2\u2153 innings.<\/p>\n<p>A six-year major league veteran, Urquidy is 27-16 with a 4.00 ERA in 70 starts and 11 relief appearances for the Astros (2019-23) and Tigers. He was on the injured list with a forearm strain in 2024 before having surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Urquidy has a 4.08 ERA in 15 postseason appearances, including eight starts.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pitcher Jose Urquidy and the Pittsburgh Pirates agreed Thursday to a $1.5 million, one-year contract, according to multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-460925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460925","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=460925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}