Rosenthal reported Sunday night that the traditionally light-spending Pirates have extended a four-year offer to Schwarber that “almost certainly is for more than $100 million.”<\/p>\n
While Pittsburgh remains a “long shot” to land the star designated hitter’s services, just the fact that it extended such an offer confirms reports from early in the off-season that it is ready to spend on its roster.<\/p>\n
The largest contract the Pirates have handed out in free agency went to Francisco Liriano in December 2014, when they inked the southpaw to a three-year, $39-million contract. The largest single commitment Pittsburgh has made to a player came in the $106.75-million extension that Bryan Reynolds signed in 2023.<\/p>\n
But coming off a 71-win season in which their bats provided little to no support for a solid rotation \u2014 headlined by Cy Young winner Paul Skenes \u2014 the Pirates seem committed to adding some thump to their lineup.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh was reportedly in the mix for Canadian first baseman Josh Naylor, who ended up signing back in Seattle for $92.5 million, and now continues its search for an impact hitter with this recent offer to Schwarber.<\/p>\n
Schwarber would represent a significant investment for a team looking to turn its offence around.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old posted a .928 OPS in 2025, leading the National League with 56 homers and 132 RBIs while playing in all 162 games for the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n
A three-time all-star, Schwarber left the yard 187 times over the course of a four-year contract with the Phillies \u2014 more times than anyone not named Aaron Judge or Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n
Schwarber is also considered an excellent locker room presence and someone who could help a young core of hitters improve.<\/p>\n
Whether the Pirates can land their big fish remains to be seen, but being mentioned among those playing atop the free-agent market has to be a breath of fresh air for a fanbase that hasn’t seen the post-season since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rosenthal reported Sunday night that the traditionally light-spending Pirates have extended a four-year offer to Schwarber that “almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-331552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}