{"id":469506,"date":"2026-02-12T05:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469506\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:01:07","slug":"pirates-and-pitcher-jose-urquidy-finalize-1-5-million-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/469506\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates and pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy finalize $1.5 million, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Urquidy and the Pittsburgh Pirates finalized their $1.5 million, one-year contract on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The sides agreed to terms last week, subject to a successful physical.<\/p>\n

A 30-year-old right-hander, Urquidy adds depth to a Pirates pitching staff headed by NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes and gives the team roster flexibility because he can be optioned to the minor leagues.<\/p>\n

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Urquidy had Tommy John surgery on June 5, 2024, while with Houston. He signed a $1 million, one-year deal<\/a> with Detroit last March and returned to the majors<\/a> on Sept. 14. He made two big league relief appearances and had a 7.71 ERA over 2 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

A six-year major league veteran, Urquidy is 27-16 with a 4.00 ERA in 70 starts and 11 relief appearances for the Astros (2019-23) and Tigers. He was on the injured list with a forearm strain in 2024 before having surgery.<\/p>\n

Urquidy has a 4.08 ERA in 15 postseason appearances, including eight starts.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Jos\u00e9 Urquidy and the Pittsburgh Pirates finalized their $1.5 million, one-year contract on Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,8823,1443,191257,462,504,509,187675,82,170346],"class_list":["post-469506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit","tag-houston","tag-jose-urquidy","tag-mlb","tag-paul-skenes","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-relief-appearances","tag-sports","tag-the-astros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469506","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=469506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}