Pirates Named Winners Of The Offseason

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates person made large changes successful really they attack their offseason and its shown successful nan moves they've made.

The Pirates person made beardown additions this winter, particularly pinch their lineup, which needed awesome improvements aft an atrocious 2025 campaign.

Pittsburgh made their first multi-year signing since 2016 successful Ryan O'Hearn for 2 years, $29 million, besides making him nan first multi-year position subordinate free supplier signing since 2015.

The Pirates besides swung large trades for a 5 players, pinch nan astir important ones successful 2nd baseman Brandon Lowe, who deed 31 location runs successful 2025, from nan Tampa Bay Rays and apical 100 imaginable successful outfielder Jhostynxon García, a powerfulness bat for nan future, from nan Boston Red Sox.

Moves for illustration these haven't conscionable reinvigorated nan instrumentality base, they've impressed nationalist media and insiders arsenic well.

MLB Insider Praises Pirates' Offseason Moves

Jeff Passan of ESPN named nan Pirates amongst his winners of nan offseason successful an article connected Jan.1 4

Passan primitively reported backmost connected Nov. 18 that nan Pirates were looking to walk and that they were targeting high-profile free agents.

While nan Pirates missed retired connected a fewer of those, specified arsenic Kyle Schwarber and Japanese prima Kazuma Okamoto, they did make beardown additions that Passan liked.

He besides liked them adding left-handed pitchers successful Mason Montgomery from nan waste and acquisition pinch nan Rays and signing free supplier Gregory Soto connected a one-year, $7.75 cardinal deal.

Passan said that nan Pirates will make much moves and that they're making nan correct decisions, thing they haven't done recently.

"This is not needfully a logic to observe — proprietor Bob Nutting needs to show a batch much than 1 progressive wintertime to reengage a instrumentality guidelines scarred by years of negligence — but astatine slightest it is 1 measurement successful a guidance pinch which Pittsburgh is eminently unfamiliar," Passan wrote.

Why Moves Pirates Made Are Important

The Pirates were 1 of nan worst hitting teams successful shot past season, ranking amongst nan bottommost successful astir statistics.

Lowe and O'Hearn are some left-handed bats that will return advantage of nan dimensions astatine PNC Park and adhd powerfulness to a squad that classed past successful location runs.

The Pirates besides added outfielder Jake Mangum successful nan waste and acquisition pinch nan Rays, who is only conscionable opening his MLB career, but tin play each 3 outfield spots and should deed adjacent .300 successful 2026.

García whitethorn not beryllium pinch nan Pirates connected Opening Day, but he is simply a right-handed bat that should yet travel up to Pittsburgh and deed immoderate location runs into nan near section bleachers.

Soto and Montgomery capable nan absence of left-handed pitchers nan Pirates antecedently had and supply acquisition and velocity, respectively.

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