{"id":571328,"date":"2026-02-14T02:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571328\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:18:14","slug":"newly-acquired-outfielder-dishes-on-fit-with-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/571328\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly Acquired Outfielder Dishes On Fit With Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/02\/13\/pirates-get-optimistic-2026-outlook-with-superb-offseason-grade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> were busy over the offseason, and while moves are still rolling in as Spring Training gets underway, the majority of the team\u2019s business has been conducted. There\u2019s no doubt there are a slew of talented newcomers in town, but one of the more intriguing arrivals is former Boston Red Sox outfield prospect <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/12\/18\/jhostynxon-garcia-excited-for-next-chapter-with-pirates\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jhostynxon Garcia<\/a>, who\u2019s also known as \u201cThe Password.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcia raced through the minors in 2025 with the Sox before briefly making his major league debut. With a swarm of outfielders at their disposal, though, Garcia became expendable, and he ended up getting dealt to the Pirates as part of the Johan Oviedo trade. While trades aren\u2019t always a welcome sight, Garcia is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DKPghSports\/status\/2022314648230314225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">excited to have an opportunity<\/a> to make the team\u2019s Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally grateful to be here,\u201d Garcia said via a translator on Friday. \u201cThe opportunity here looks like it is better, too many outfielders in the Red Sox organization. Coming here, I really feel like I have a chance, an opportunity to make the team, and I\u2019m really grateful for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In just seven at-bats last season, Garcia had five strikeouts compared to one hit, so it\u2019s clear that he still has some growing to do. His upside is hard to ignore, though, and if he puts together a strong body of work during Spring Training, he could begin the year in the majors. An opportunity is all Garcia wanted, and now, it will be up to him to take advantage of it over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/02\/13\/pirates-get-optimistic-2026-outlook-with-superb-offseason-grade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates Get Optimistic 2026 Outlook With Superb Offseason Grade<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Pirates were busy over the offseason, and while moves are still rolling in as Spring Training&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,19257,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-571328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jhostynxon-garcia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116066589482846341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571328","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=571328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}