{"id":576087,"date":"2026-02-16T19:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576087\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:53:37","slug":"pirates-dfa-outfielder-following-marcell-ozuna-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576087\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates DFA Outfielder Following Marcell Ozuna Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s Colin Beazley <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/colin_beazley\/status\/2023416196427853840?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported Monday morning<\/a> that it seemed \u201chighly likely\u201d that Pirates outfielder Jack Suwinski would be centered around the corresponding move in the wake of the signing of designated hitter Marcell Ozuna.<\/p>\n<p>FanSided MLB insider Robert Murray reported minutes later that the Pirates were indeed designating Suwinski for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources: The Pirates are designating Jack Suwinski for assignment,\u201d Murray posted on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sources: The Pirates are designating Jack Suwinski for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/2023416829277016176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has spent his entire big-league career with Pittsburgh after being acquired in a trade with the San Diego Padres in July 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Suwinski made his MLB debut in April 2022 and recorded 19 home runs and 38 RBIs across 106 games that season.<\/p>\n<p>He set career highs across the board in 2023, including in home runs (26) and OPS (.793), both of which led all Pirates players.<\/p>\n<p>Suwinski appeared in just 88 contests during the 2024 campaign and a career-low 59 games in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/02\/15\/pirates-manager-brings-in-retired-all-star-pitcher-as-spring-training-mentor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates Manager Brings In Retired All-Star Pitcher As Spring Training Mentor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u2019s Colin Beazley reported Monday morning that it seemed \u201chighly likely\u201d that Pirates outfielder Jack Suwinski&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,361,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-576087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-jack-suwinski","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116082062456964357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576087","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=576087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}