{"id":567978,"date":"2026-02-12T10:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567978\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:34:49","slug":"orioles-land-chris-bassitt-on-1-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/567978\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles land Chris Bassitt on 1-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE \u2014 The Baltimore Orioles have agreed to a one-year, $18.5 million contract with right handed pitcher <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33148\/chris-bassitt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Bassitt<\/a> according to Jeff Passan of ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Bassitt is known around the league as a reliable vet with noteworthy postseason experience.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Bassitt went 11-9 for the Blue Jays with a 3.98 ERA and 166 strikeouts in 170\u2153 innings.<\/p>\n<p>In the ALCS and World Series, he would leave the bullpen, only allowing one run on three hits while striking out seven batters over 8\u2154 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The ink isn&#8217;t totally dry, though.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is still pending a physical and will include a $3 million signing bonus with $500,000 in incentives if the pitcher starts 27 games.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, this is something he has made a habit of, as in his last five seasons, he has notched 880\u2153 innings, ranking eighth among all MLB pitchers. This would include our consecutive seasons of 30-plus starts and a strikeout rate which has remained consistent year to year, sitting between 22.2% and 22.6% each season.<\/p>\n<p>Over his 12-year major league career with the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chw\/chicago-white-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Sox<\/a>, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ath\/athletics-athletics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a>, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mets,<\/a> and Blue Jays, Bassitt is 83-65 with a 3.64 ERA, 1,191 strikeouts, and 409 walks in 1,278\u2154 innings. In 23\u2154 career playoff innings over three postseasons, Bassitt has a 3.04 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 The Baltimore Orioles have agreed to a one-year, $18.5 million contract with right handed pitcher Chris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[152,143,47,2538,5,43466,82,4,2046,125,74827,30345,1454,70,1942],"class_list":{"0":"post-567978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-american-league","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-baseball-contract","14":"tag-chris-bassitt","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-mlb-free-agency","17":"tag-orioles","18":"tag-pitcher-signing","19":"tag-postseason-experience","20":"tag-starting-rotation","21":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","22":"tag-veteran-pitcher"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116057218976983647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567978","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=567978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}