Ryan O\u2019Hearn will not rejoin the Padres.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old first baseman has agreed to a two-year deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates that will guarantee him $29 million, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n
The left-handed-hitting O\u2019Hearn reached free agency after finishing the 2025 season with the Padres. He hit .283\/.374\/.463 with 13 homers in 93 games as an All-Star with the Orioles and added four homers and a .276\/.350\/.387 batting line in 50 games after the trade to San Diego.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hearn went on to go 2-for-11 with a walk and a hit-by-pitch in three games in the NL Wild Card Series.<\/p>\n
A return to San Diego was always a long shot. The Padres already employ a left-handed-hitting first baseman\/corner outfielder in Gavin Sheets, who had 19 homers and a .746 OPS in his first year in San Diego and won\u2019t reach free agency until 2028.<\/p>\n
The club may now pursue a right-handed complement to Sheets, who at times found himself platooning in 2025.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Hearn joins Dylan Cease (Blue Jays) and closer Robert Suarez (Braves) as free agents who have found new homes. The Padres last week re-signed Michael King, leaving first baseman Luis Arraez, infielder Jose Iglesias, left-hander Nestor Cortes and catcher Elias D\u00edaz as their departing free agents looking for work.<\/p>\n
The Padres also re-signed left-hander Kyle Hart after declining the option on his original deal.<\/p>\n
Catcher Mart\u00edn Maldonado has retired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan O\u2019Hearn will not rejoin the Padres. The 32-year-old first baseman has agreed to a two-year deal with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[241,1423,73,75,74,28762,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-69774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pittsburgh","11":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","12":"tag-pittsburgh-news","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69774","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=69774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}