{"id":576211,"date":"2026-02-16T21:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:26:13","slug":"former-pirates-all-star-to-sign-minor-league-deal-with-al-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576211\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pirates All-Star To Sign Minor League Deal With AL Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Adam Frazier is reportedly joining the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam Frazier has a locker in the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Angels?src=hashtag_click\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Angels<\/a> clubhouse. It\u2019s a Minor League deal,\u201d MLB.com Angels beat reporter Rhett Bollinger posted on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adam Frazier has a locker in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Angels?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Angels<\/a> clubhouse. It\u2019s a Minor League deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rhett Bollinger (@RhettBollinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RhettBollinger\/status\/2023425613797949882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pirates selected the 34-year-old second baseman and outfielder in the sixth round of the 2013 MLB June Amateur Draft and he made his big-league debut with the club three years later.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier spent the first five-plus seasons of his career in Pittsburgh and earned an NL All-Star nod in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He recorded four home runs, 32 RBIs and career bests in batting average (.324), on-base percentage (.388) and OPS (.836) across 98 games with the Pirates that year before being traded to the San Diego Padres in July.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier was sent to San Diego with cash in exchange for a package that included outfielder Jack Suwinski, who Pittsburgh <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/02\/16\/report-pirates-dfa-outfielder-following-marcell-ozuna-signing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly designated for assignment<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier played the 2022 campaign with the Seattle Mariners, the 2023 season with the Baltimore Orioles and suited up for the Kansas City Royals in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi State product re-signed with the Pirates in January 2025 and played 78 contests in Pittsburgh last season before being <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2025\/07\/16\/pirates-trade-former-all-star-back-to-old-team-amid-break\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">traded back to the Royals<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier finished the 2025 campaign with seven home runs, 44 RBIs and a .267\/.319\/.365 triple slash over 459 plate appearances covering 134 games.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnetpittsburgh.com\/2026\/02\/16\/report-former-pirates-all-star-to-sign-minor-league-deal-with-al-team\/Pirates%20DFA%20Outfielder%20Following%20Marcell%20Ozuna%20Signing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report: Pirates DFA Outfielder Following Marcell Ozuna Signing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star Adam Frazier is reportedly joining the Los Angeles Angels. \u201cAdam Frazier has a locker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[8007,5,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-576211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-adam-frazier","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116082428204499065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576211","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=576211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}