{"id":81844,"date":"2026-01-09T00:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81844\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:29:19","slug":"pirates-make-a-rare-free-agency-splash-finalizing-29m-2-year-deal-with-ryan-ohearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/81844\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates make a rare free agency splash, finalizing $29M, 2-year deal with Ryan O&#8217;Hearn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pirates-ryan-ohearn-mlb-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ryan O&#8217;Hearn<\/a>\u00a0finalized a $29 million, two-year deal with Pittsburgh on Thursday, the Pirates&#8217; first multi-year free agent agreement in nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed first baseman and outfielder is coming off the best season of his big league career. O&#8217;Hearn hit .281 with 17 home runs and 63 RBIs in 2025 and made the All-Star team for the first time while playing for Baltimore and San Diego. <\/p>\n<p>The rare splurge by the Pirates is their second significant acquisition in less than a week. Pittsburgh acquired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pirates-brandon-lowe-paul-skenes-ben-cherington-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">two-time All-Star second baseman Brandon Lowe<\/a>\u00a0from Tampa Bay on Dec. 19 as part of a three-team deal that included sending starting pitcher Mike Burrows to Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh has vowed to build around a pitching staff that includes reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/paul-skenes-wins-nl-cy-young\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes<\/a>\u00a0and rookie Bubba Chandler. The Pirates are coming off a 71-91 season in which the offense finished at or near the bottom of the majors in most significant statistical categories, including runs and home runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan O&#8217;Hearn\u00a0finalized a $29 million, two-year deal with Pittsburgh on Thursday, the Pirates&#8217; first multi-year free agent agreement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11199,73,75,74,10997,28762,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-81844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-major-league-baseball","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news","12":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","13":"tag-san-diego-padres","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81844","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=81844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}