{"id":402346,"date":"2026-01-12T04:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T04:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T04:50:07","slug":"pirates-sign-noah-davis-to-minor-league-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/402346\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Sign Noah Davis To Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pirates signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=davisno01,davis-003noa,davis-005noa,davis-006noa&amp;search=Noah+Davis&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Noah Davis<\/a> to a minor league deal earlier this week, as per Davis\u2019 MLB.com profile page.\u00a0 The right-hander elected minor league free agency in October, qualifying for the status due to multiple career outright assignments and not being added back to the Twins\u2019 40-man roster after being outrighted in September.<\/p>\n<p>After making his MLB debut in the form of a single inning of work for the Rockies during the 2022 season, Davis has now played in each of the last four Major League seasons, albeit with not a ton more playing time than that initial cup-of-coffee appearance.\u00a0 Davis has 27 games and 62 1\/3 innings under his belt, with a 9.53 ERA, 18.5% strikeout rate, and 9.2% walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the damage has come from the long ball, as Davis has given up a whopping 17 home runs in his 62 1\/3 IP.\u00a0 Ten of those 17 homers came during Davis\u2019 three seasons in Colorado, and he then allowed seven more runs over 11 innings with the Dodgers and Twins in 2025.\u00a0 The right-hander actually began the 2025 season with the Red Sox on a minor league contract, but Los Angeles swung a trade for Davis in late March, and then designated him for assignment in July.\u00a0 Minnesota then claimed Davis off waivers but things didn\u2019t do any better for the righty in Minnesota, and he finished his 2025 campaign an 18.00 ERA.<\/p>\n<p>Now entering his age-29 season, Davis also doesn\u2019t have great numbers in Triple-A or even in Double-A, though 2025 marked the first time he\u2019d been utilized almost exclusively as a reliever.\u00a0 The results were better, with Davis posting a 3.88 ERA, 26K%, and 11.5BB% across 48 2\/3 innings and 35 appearances with the Dodgers\u2019 and Twins\u2019 Triple-A affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>While this improvement hasn\u2019t translated to success against big league batters, Davis\u2019 possible upside as a reliever was enough to get the Pirates interested in a look during Spring Training.\u00a0 Between Pittsburgh\u2019s recent success in producing arms and new pitching coach Bill Murphy\u2019s track record with the Astros, there\u2019s some reason to believe Davis might be a late bloomer with some help from the Buccos\u2019 pitching development team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates signed Noah Davis to a minor league deal earlier this week, as per Davis\u2019 MLB.com profile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,194144,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-402346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-noah-davis","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}