{"id":567343,"date":"2026-02-12T02:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567343\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:23:26","slug":"baltimore-orioles-sign-former-blue-jays-pitcher-bassitt-to-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567343\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles sign former Blue Jays pitcher Bassitt to one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 Free-agent right-hander Chris Bassitt is joining the Baltimore Orioles on a one-year deal, leaving the Toronto Blue Jays after three seasons, according to multiple reports Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Jeff Passan was first to report the agreement, which is valued at US$18.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The contract is pending a physical and includes a signing bonus and incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Bassitt went 11-9 with a 3.96 ERA over 170 1\/3 innings for Toronto last season.<\/p>\n<p>He also moved to the bullpen during the playoffs, allowing one run across 8 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Bassitt signed a three-year, $63 million contract with Toronto ahead of the 2023 season and went 37-31 with a 3.89 ERA during his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 11, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Free-agent right-hander Chris Bassitt is joining the Baltimore Orioles on a one-year deal, leaving the Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[47,5,377,2554,82,5924,4,282,70,2553],"class_list":{"0":"post-567343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-blue-jays","11":"tag-bluejays","12":"tag-chris-bassitt","13":"tag-jeff-passan","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-toronto","16":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","17":"tag-torontobluejays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116055284474439699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567343","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=567343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}