{"id":335982,"date":"2025-12-10T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335982\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T03:47:07","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-agree-to-one-year-7-75-million-deal-with-reliever-gregory-soto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335982\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates agree to one-year, $7.75 million deal with reliever Gregory Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates and two-time All-Star reliever Gregory Soto have agreed to a $7.75 million, one-year contract, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Soto gives the Pirates an experienced left-handed option in a bullpen that will get a makeover in 2026 after relievers Colin Holderman and Dauri Moreta were designated for assignment last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 30-year-old Soto is 15-34 with a 4.26 ERA and 56 saves over seven seasons with five teams. He was an All-Star in 2021 and 2022 for Detroit. He spent 2025 with Baltimore and the New York Mets, who acquired him in late July just before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Soto struggled in New York, going 1-3 with a 4.50 ERA in 25 appearances. His departure is the second significant subtraction from the Mets bullpen in free agency after closer Edwin D\u00edaz agreed to a three-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pittsburgh appears to be settled at the back end of the bullpen, where Dennis Santana performed well after two-time All-Star David Bednar was traded to the New York Yankees last season. Soto gives the Pirates a pitcher who has filled a variety of roles, including closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Will Graves, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates and two-time All-Star reliever Gregory Soto have agreed to a $7.75 million,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-335982","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\/335982","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=335982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}