{"id":561153,"date":"2026-02-08T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/561153\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:28:13","slug":"veteran-pitcher-who-made-cameo-with-tigers-in-2025-signs-deal-with-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/561153\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran pitcher who made cameo with Tigers in 2025 signs deal with Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"

DETROIT — Veteran starting pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy<\/a> has signed a one-year major-league deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Urquidy, 30,\u00a0signed with the Tigers during last year\u2019s spring training<\/a>\u00a0as he continued his rehab from Tommy John elbow surgery. But he ultimately made only a cameo appearance with the big league club. The Tigers opted not to exercise a $4 million contract for 2026<\/a>. The deal he signed with the Pirates is reportedly worth $1.5 million plus incentives. <\/p>\n

The Mazatl\u00e1n, Mexico, native debuted with the Houston Astros in 2019 under then-manager A.J. Hinch, making 14 appearances (12 starts) over his first two seasons. He broke out in 2021, going 8-3 with a 3.62 ERA in 20 starts and becoming the first Mexican-born pitcher to win multiple World Series games. In 2022, he set career highs with 13 wins and 164 1\/3 innings, helping Houston to another championship.<\/p>\n

Urquidy struggled in 2023 and then missed the entire 2024 season with a forearm injury that ultimately required surgery. After the season, he was removed from Houston\u2019s roster and elected free agency.<\/p>\n

After a lengthy rehab outing, Urquidy joined the Tigers\u2019 active roster in mid-September but pitched in only two games out of the bullpen before being returned to Triple-A Toledo.<\/p>\n

The Pirates signed Urquidy after missing on Framber Valdez, who signed with the Tigers<\/a>. Urquidy and Valdez were longtime teammates in Houston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT — Veteran starting pitcher Jos\u00e9 Urquidy has signed a one-year major-league deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Urquidy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386],"tags":[5,147,53,2583,4,594],"class_list":{"0":"post-561153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-tigers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-tigers","11":"tag-detroittigers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-tigers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116035485957793049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561153","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=561153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}