{"id":366469,"date":"2025-12-24T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366469\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:39:07","slug":"pete-fairbanks-agrees-to-1-year-13m-deal-with-miami-marlins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/366469\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Fairbanks agrees to 1-year, $13M deal with Miami Marlins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Reliever Pete Fairbanks and the Miami Marlins are in agreement on a one-year, $13 million contract, sources confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fairbanks, 32, had an $11 million option turned down by the Tampa Bay Rays and went into the open market and beat that number by $2 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fairbanks, was one of the top relievers available in a market soft with high-leverage options. As the primary closer for the Rays over the past four seasons he saved 83 games and posted a 2.83 ERA, striking out 332 and walking 103 in 265.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With a fastball that sits at 97 mph, a well-above-average slider and a cutter that was added midseason in 2025 and graded out as an elite pitch, Fairbanks was expected to draw multiyear interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fairbanks\u2019 best full season came in 2023, when he struck out 13.5 batters per nine innings and had greater than an 11-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. With questions about his durability present after never throwing more than 45.1 innings in a season, Fairbanks booked a career-best 60.1 innings in 2025 and logged a career-high 27 saves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Athletic first reported the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reliever Pete Fairbanks and the Miami Marlins are in agreement on a one-year, $13 million contract, sources confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,157068,462,157069,82],"class_list":["post-366469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-miami-marlins-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-252","tag-mlb","tag-pete-fairbanks-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-827454","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366469","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=366469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}