{"id":65487,"date":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65487\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:52:09","slug":"pirates-reportedly-in-talks-to-acquire-rays-brandon-lowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65487\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Reportedly In Talks To Acquire Rays&#8217; Brandon Lowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Lowe could soon be headed to PNC Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Chandler_Rome\/status\/2002060644502450634?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">are in the late stages<\/a> of agreeing to a three-team deal Friday, which will send right-hander Mike Burrows to Houston and infielder Brandon Lowe to Pittsburgh, according to The Athletic\u2019s Ken Rosenthal and Chandler Rome.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a complicated deal, which reportedly involves six total players. Rosenthal provided the specifics of the proposed deal, including where each player will end up once it is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates: infielder Brandon Lowe, left-handed pitcher Mason Montgomery, outfielder Jake Mangum<br \/>Astros: right-handed pitcher Mike Burrows<br \/>Rays: outfielder Jacob Melton, right-handed pitcher Anderson Brito<\/p>\n<p>Lowe, 31, is the biggest name of the bunch, spending the last eight seasons establishing himself as one of the better power-hitting middle-infielders in the sport \u2014 combining to slash .243\/.321\/.471 with 120 home runs and 333 RBIs since 2021. The Rays only had four above-average bats in their lineup last season, and just traded one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Burrows, 26, finished with a 3.94 ERA in his first big-league season in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>More Pirates: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/12\/18\/jhostynxon-garcia-excited-for-next-chapter-with-pirates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jhostynxon Garcia Excited For \u2018Next Chapter\u2019 With Pirates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Lowe could soon be headed to PNC Park. The Pittsburgh Pirates, Houston Astros and Tampa Bay Rays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34879,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-65487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-brandon-lowe","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487","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=65487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}