{"id":557682,"date":"2026-02-06T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557682\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:18:28","slug":"pirates-add-rotation-depth-sign-jose-urquidy-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/557682\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Add Rotation Depth, Sign Jos\u00e9 Urquidy to One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"350\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Urquidy.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium tpd-force-16x9-aspect-ratio wp-post-image\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 Urquidy, Pittsburgh Pirates\" decoding=\"sync\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates are in agreement with free agent right-handed pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy, a source confirmed to Pittsburgh Baseball Now. The deal, which is for one-year and $1.5 million, is pending a physical. <\/p>\n<p>Urquidy, 30, pitched five seaons with the Houston Astros from 2019-23 and went 27-16 with a 3.98 ERA across 79 appearances\/70 starts. In 405 innings, he allowed 366 hits, walked 97 and struck out 326.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy John surgery cost Urquidy the 2024 season, but he returned to the mound for the Detroit Tigers last year and made a pair of relief appearances. The right-hander also made seven appearances\/four starts with Triple-A Toledo and went 1-0 with a 3.24 ERA across 16.2 innings. <\/p>\n<p>Urquidy adds starting pitching depth and has the ability to be optioned if the fails to make the club\u2019s Opening Day roster. It marks the second straight day the Pirates have added rotation depth after signing <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pittsburgh-pirates-sign-mike-clevinger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Clevinger<\/a> to a minor-league deal with an invite to spring training.<\/p>\n<p>Urquidy reunites with new Pirates pitching coach Bill Murphy, who joined manager Don Kelly\u2019s staff from Houston. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMentioned in this article: <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/jose-urquidy\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Urquidy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/tag\/pittsburgh-pirates\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">More about:<a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghbaseballnow.com\/pirates-transactions\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates Transactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates are in agreement with free agent right-handed pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy, a source confirmed to Pittsburgh Baseball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,368,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-557682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jose-urquidy","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116023414977308958","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}