{"id":821843,"date":"2026-07-23T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821843\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T23:22:08","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-add-bullpen-depth-by-acquiring-righty-reliever-ron-marinaccio-from-san-diego-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/821843\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates add bullpen depth by acquiring righty reliever Ron Marinaccio from San Diego Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/pittsburgh-pirates\/247\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> acquired reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ron-marinaccio\/1055520\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ron-marinaccio\/1055520\" target=\"_blank\">Ron Marinaccio<\/a> from San Diego on Thursday in exchange for signing bonus pool considerations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The club, which is part of a congested race for a National League wild card spot as the trade deadline nears, made the move in the hopes of bolstering a bullpen that has faltered in key moments this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 31-year-old Marinaccio went 1-0 with a 4.79 ERA in 33 games this season for the Padres. Pittsburgh will be the right-hander\u2019s third MLB stop. Marinaccio pitched for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> from 2022-24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To make room for Marinaccio on the roster, Pittsburgh designated reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/dennis-santana\/737018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/dennis-santana\/737018\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Santana<\/a> for assignment. Santana appeared to be the Pirates\u2019 closer of the future after finishing with a career-best 16 saves last year, but the 30-year-old has struggled this season. He is 2-5 with a 6.05 ERA and two saves in four opportunities.<\/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\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates acquired reliever Ron Marinaccio from San Diego on Thursday in exchange for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-821843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821843","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=821843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}