{"id":467881,"date":"2026-02-14T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T08:21:07","slug":"pitcher-chris-bassitt-officially-signs-one-year-contract-with-baltimore-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/467881\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitcher Chris Bassitt officially signs one-year contract with Baltimore Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (WBFF)  \u2014 It&#8217;s official \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/sports\/sports-unlimited\/orioles-sign-starting-pitcher-chris-bassitt-one-year-185-million-deal-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">right-handed pitcher Chris Bassitt<\/a> is heading to Charm City after signing a one-year contract with the Baltimore Orioles worth a reported $18.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the 36-year-old went 11-9 with a 3.96 ERA in 32 appearances for the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ | <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/sports\/sports-unlimited\/former-ravens-defensive-coordinator-hired-as-seattle-seahawks-inside-linebackers-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former Ravens defensive coordinator Zach Orr to join Seahawks as inside linebackers coach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also made seven relief appearances during last year&#8217;s postseason, tallying a 1.04 ERA with 10 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>In 11 years, Bassitt has made 232 total appearances, starting 218 times, for the Chicago White Sox (2014), Oakland Athletics (2015-2021), New York Mets (2022) and Blue Jays (2023-2025).<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, he received his first All-Star Game selection with the Athletics.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also one of just seven MLB pitchers to start at least 30 games in each of the past four seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The Orioles&#8217; roster is currently full with 40 players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (WBFF) \u2014 It&#8217;s official \u2014 right-handed pitcher Chris Bassitt is heading to Charm City after signing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-467881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467881","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=467881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}