{"id":364900,"date":"2025-12-19T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/364900\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:29:13","slug":"rays-all-star-brandon-lowe-traded-to-pittsburgh-pirates-espn-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/364900\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays All-Star Brandon Lowe traded to Pittsburgh Pirates: ESPN sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays have been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/sports\/rays-trade-shane-baz-to-orioles-espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making roster moves<\/a> as the franchise ships its All-Star slugger and infielder, according to ESPN sources.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan posted to X on Friday afternoon Brandon Lowe is headed to Pittsburgh in a three-team deal involving the Rays, Pirates and Houston Astros.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe earned MLB All-Star honors in 2025, while driving in 83 runs, collecting 130 hits, and he was just one game away from setting a franchise record by getting a hit in 21 consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p>The full multi-team trade breakdown has the Pirates receiving the 31-year-old second baseman, as well as left-handed pitcher Mason Montgomery and outfielder Jake Magnum. The Rays get outfielder Jacob Melton and right-handed pitcher Anderson Brito.<\/p>\n<p>Right hander Mike Burrows lands in Houston.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay mother grieves the loss of her oldest son, who died in a DUI crash<\/p>\n<p>Police said the 19-year-old who was on a motorcycle was struck and killed by an impaired driver.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay mother grieves the loss of her oldest son who died in a DUI crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Rays have been making roster moves as the franchise ships its All-Star slugger and infielder,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[47838,7136,7137,20446,5,189,47839,4,5628,540,32946,92,6727,7138,5168,5167,7139],"class_list":{"0":"post-364900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-3-team-trade","9":"tag-abc-action-news","10":"tag-abc-action-news-sports","11":"tag-brandon-lowe","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-lightning","14":"tag-mlb-trade","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-28","19":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","20":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","21":"tag-tampa-bay-sports","22":"tag-tampabay","23":"tag-tampabaylightning","24":"tag-wfts"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115748363628078126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}