{"id":57602,"date":"2025-12-10T19:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57602\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:17:16","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-agree-to-one-year-7-75-million-deal-with-reliever-gregory-soto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57602\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates agree to one-year, $7.75 million deal with reliever Gregory Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"

PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> and two-time All-Star reliever Gregory Soto<\/a> have agreed to a $7.75 million, one-year contract, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the agreement was subject to a successful physical.<\/p>\n

Soto gives the Pirates an experienced left-handed option in a bullpen that will get a makeover in 2026 after relievers Colin Holderman<\/a> and Dauri Moreta<\/a> were designated for assignment last month.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old Soto is 15-34 with a 4.26 ERA and 56 saves over seven seasons with five teams. He was an All-Star in 2021 and 2022 for Detroit. He spent 2025 with Baltimore and the New York Mets<\/a>, who acquired him in late July just before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Soto struggled in New York, going 1-3 with a 4.50 ERA in 25 appearances. His departure is the second significant subtraction from the Mets bullpen in free agency after closer Edwin D\u00edaz agreed to a three-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> earlier Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh appears to be settled at the back end of the bullpen, where Dennis Santana<\/a> performed well after two-time All-Star David Bednar<\/a> was traded to the New York Yankees<\/a> last season. Soto gives the Pirates a pitcher who has filled a variety of roles, including closer.<\/p>\n

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

Will Graves, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 The Pittsburgh Pirates and two-time All-Star reliever Gregory Soto have agreed to a $7.75 million,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-57602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-pittsburgh","9":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","10":"tag-pittsburgh-news","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57602","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=57602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}