{"id":52618,"date":"2025-12-05T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52618\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:21:07","slug":"pirates-trade-johan-oviedo-to-red-sox-for-jhostynxon-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52618\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates trade Johan Oviedo to Red Sox for Jhostynxon Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pittsburgh Pirates have traded pitcher Johan Oviedo to the Boston Red Sox for outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia as part of a five-player deal on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Pitcher Tyler Samaniego, catcher Adonys Guzman and Oviedo are headed to Boston in exchange for<\/a> Garcia and pitcher Jesus Travieso. The deal helps add depth to the Red Sox’s pitching staff while helping the Pirates add a new, fresh bat to the lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Who is Jhostynxon Garcia?<\/p>\n

Garcia is the Red Sox’s third-best prospect and No. 85 overall, according to MLB<\/a>. The 22-year-old outfielder was called up to the majors in\u00a0<\/a>Augus<\/a>t by Boston and appeared in five games. Garcia will have a chance to start on Opening Day for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

He’s known as “The Password” because of the spelling of his first name, which is pronounced JOES-tin-son.<\/p>\n

Who is Johan Oviedo?<\/p>\n

Oviedo, a right-handed pitcher, has dealt with injuries recently. He underwent Tommy John surgery in late 2023 and rebounded to pick up his first win since the surgery\u00a0in August<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old pitched in nine games in 2025, posting a 2-1 record and a 3.57 ERA. He had 42 strikeouts in 40 1\/3 innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pirates-Red Sox trade details<\/p>\n

Tyler Samaniego spent last season with the Altoona Curve, the Pirates’ Double-A level affiliate. Adonys Guzman spent 2025 with the Bradenton Marauders, the Single-A level affiliate of the Pirates.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Travieso, 18, split time between the Rookie-Level Florida Complex League Red Sox and Low-A Salem RidgeYaks last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates have traded pitcher Johan Oviedo to the Boston Red Sox for outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4662,23034,11460,11199,73,75,74,10997],"class_list":["post-52618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52618","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=52618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}