{"id":836380,"date":"2026-07-31T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836380\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:37:13","slug":"report-pirates-very-interested-in-reliever-luke-weaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/836380\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pirates very interested in reliever Luke Weaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates are reportedly one of the teams trying to acquire New York Mets reliever Luke Weaver before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The Athletic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/author\/ken-rosenthal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports <\/a>that, along with the Milwaukee Brewers, the Pirates are \u201cshowing strong interest\u201d in Weaver, who currently has a 1.88 ERA over 41 games and 43 innings pitched for the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver has a 1.9 WAR with 44 strike outs, 11 walks and 10 runs given up.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates insider Jason Mackey believes the team could get Weaver in a package that would include Pirates #3 prospect Murf Gray, third baseman with the Altoona Curve.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver is under contract n 2027 for $11 million and is owed another $2.4 million after the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The addition of the 32-year-old would instantly bolster the Pirates bullpen, but with rumors of the Brewers also interested in Weaver, it likely means it won\u2019t be cheap to acquire him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates are reportedly one of the teams trying to acquire New York Mets reliever Luke Weaver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,22725,591,5160,85,79618],"class_list":["post-836380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-luke-weaver","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-sports","tag-trade-rumors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836380","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=836380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}