{"id":364423,"date":"2025-12-23T20:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364423\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:04:07","slug":"report-pirates-ink-first-baseman-ryan-ohearn-to-two-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/364423\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pirates ink first baseman Ryan O&#8217;Hearn to two-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates are making big moves this off-season<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh has signed first-baseman <a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"95f62738-6fd7-48a0-b8a8-46f17c0f939c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/players\/ryan-ohearn\/95f62738-6fd7-48a0-b8a8-46f17c0f939c\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ryan O&#8217;Hearn<\/a> to two-year, $29-million contract, FanSided&#8217;s Robert Murray <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2003546962260558049?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">first reported<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates, not known to be big spenders, make O&#8217;Hearn their second-richest player by average annual value, just behind starting pitcher Mitch Keller who signed a five-year, $77-million contract in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hearn started his career with the Kansas City Royals in 2018, and was traded to Baltimore in 2023. O&#8217;Hearn made his first career all-star game this season and was traded shortly afterward to the San Diego Padres along with Ramon Laureano.<\/p>\n<p>Between the Orioles and Padres, O&#8217;Hearn hit .281 with 17 home runs and 63 RBIs over 474 at-bats. He is a career .252 hitter.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hearn joins a Pirates infield, which will feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/mlb\/article\/ap-source-pirates-to-acquire-brandon-lowe-in-three-team-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">newly acquired<\/a> second baseman and two-time all-star Brandon Lowe. Lowe hit 31 home runs last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates are making big moves this off-season Pittsburgh has signed first-baseman Ryan O&#8217;Hearn to two-year, $29-million contract,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-364423","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\/364423","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=364423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}