{"id":558120,"date":"2026-02-06T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/558120\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:07:39","slug":"former-guardians-pitcher-mike-clevinger-signs-with-pittsburgh-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/558120\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Guardians pitcher Mike Clevinger signs with Pittsburgh Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Cleveland Guardians<\/a> pitcher Mike Clevinger has signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates, according to reports.<\/p>\n

Clevinger, 35, signed a minor league contract with an invite to the Pirates\u2019 spring training camp this month.<\/p>\n

Clevinger spent the past three seasons with the Chicago White Sox<\/a>. Most recently, he pitched in eight games for the White Sox at the beginning of the 2025 season, recording a 7.94 ERA in 5.2 innings pitched in relief. He spent the majority of the season at Triple-A Charlotte, where he posted a 7-3 record, 4.20 ERA and 93 strikeouts in 22 starts.<\/p>\n

Prior to Chicago, Clevinger played two seasons for the San Diego Padres, and his first four-plus MLB seasons with the Guardians from 2016-20. <\/p>\n

In August 2020, Clevinger was traded<\/a> with Greg Allen and Matt Waldron from Cleveland to San Diego in exchange for Josh Naylor, Austin Hedges, Cal Quantrill, Owen Miller, Gabriel Arias and Joey Cantillo. <\/p>\n

In nine MLB seasons, Clevinger has a 60-44 record, 3.55 ERA and 822 strikeouts in 809.2 innings pitched over 164 games, including 142 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Cleveland Guardians pitcher Mike Clevinger has signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates, according to reports. Clevinger, 35, signed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,25766,538,4],"class_list":["post-558120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guaranteed-rate-field","tag-guardians","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116024787819385312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558120","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=558120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}