{"id":62644,"date":"2025-12-16T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62644\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:32:08","slug":"reliever-gregory-soto-and-pittsburgh-pirates-finalize-7-75-million-1-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/62644\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliever Gregory Soto and Pittsburgh Pirates finalize $7.75 million, 1-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">PITTBURGH (AP) \u2014 Two-time All-Star reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/gregory-soto-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gregory Soto<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/pittsburgh-pirates-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> finalized a $7.75 million, one-year contract on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Soto gives the Pirates an experienced left-handed option in a bullpen that will get a makeover in 2026 after relievers Colin Holderman and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/dauri-moreta-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dauri Moreta<\/a> were designated for assignment last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The 30-year-old 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-mets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a>, who acquired him in late July just before the trade deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/edwin-diaz-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edwin Diaz<\/a> agreed to a three-year contract with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> earlier Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Pittsburgh appears to be settled at the back end of the bullpen, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/dennis-santana-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Santana<\/a> performed well after two-time All-Star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/david-bednar-2-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Bednar<\/a> was traded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> last season. Soto gives the Pirates a pitcher who has filled a variety of roles, including closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTBURGH (AP) \u2014 Two-time All-Star reliever Gregory Soto and the Pittsburgh Pirates finalized a $7.75 million, one-year contract&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-62644","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62644","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=62644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}