{"id":40430,"date":"2025-11-21T07:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40430\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:10:11","slug":"arbitration-avoided-with-suwinski-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/40430\/","title":{"rendered":"Arbitration avoided with Suwinski, Ramirez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates have agreed with Jack Suwinski on a one-year deal worth $1.25 million to avoid arbitration ahead of tomorrow&#8217;s non-tender deadline, per source. They have also agreed on a one-year contract worth $825,000 with Yohan Ramirez to avoid arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>Suwinski, 27, seemed like a non-tender candidate after hitting just .147 with a .534 OPS, three home runs and 10 RBIs over 59 games with the Pirates this past season. His salary projection was $1.7 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/10\/projected-arbitration-salaries-for-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB Trade Rumors<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two seasons since he hit 26 home runs and drove in 74 runs in 2023, Suwinski has batted just .169 with a .568 OPS in 147 games. He has hit just 12 home runs and struck out 136 times in 397 at-bats during that span. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really all or nothing for Suwinski, who is out of minor-league options and will look to make the opening day roster out of spring training. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez, 30, went 3-3 with a 5.40 ERA and struck out 45 batters while walking 16 in 33 1\/3 innings over 24 appearances with the Pirates this season. His salary projection was $1.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates have agreed with Jack Suwinski on a one-year deal worth $1.25 million to avoid arbitration ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24481,18203,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-40430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-feed-article","9":"tag-pirates","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}