{"id":109735,"date":"2025-11-20T23:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=109735"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:12:57","slug":"pirates-avoid-arbitration-suwinksi-ramirez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/20\/pirates-avoid-arbitration-suwinksi-ramirez\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Sign Two to Avoid Arbitration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/suwinja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Suwinski<\/a> and pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/ramiryo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yohan Ram\u00edrez<\/a> to one-year contracts, avoiding arbitration for both players. Suwinski will get $1.25 million, while Ram\u00edrez will receive $875,000. Both came below what they were projected to receive in arbitration. Robert Murray of FanSided broke the news about Suwinski, while Alex Stumpf of mlb.com was first to report about Ram\u00edrez.<\/p>\n<h2>Pirates Avoid Arbitration with Suwinski and Ram\u00edrez<\/h2>\n<h3>Bringing Suwinski Back a Surprise<\/h3>\n<p>As if to illustrate the unpredictability of the baseball offseason, Suwinski and Ram\u00edrez were signed when they seemed to be surefire non-tender candidates. Never a hitter for a high average, the left-handed-hitting Suwinski led the 2023 Pirates with 26 home runs. Since then, he\u2019s fallen on hard times. Over 2024 and 2025, he hit .169\/.271\/.297, 12 HR, and 36 RBI, striking out 136 times in 455 plate appearances. He was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/23\/pirates-suwinski-triple-a-indianapolis\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">up and down<\/a> from the minor leagues during these seasons. The time in the minors did nothing to improve his hitting. He\u2019s considered a strong defensive outfielder who can be used in all three spots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: Jack Suwinski and the Pirates have agreed to a one-year, $1.25 million contract to avoid arbitration.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Murray (@ByRobertMurray) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ByRobertMurray\/status\/1991653134167601597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suwinski has clearly been a player who would seem to benefit from a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/09\/02\/four-pirates-who-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">change of scenery<\/a>. However, he&#8217;s apparently not going to get one, and it\u2019s a mystery as to why he\u2019s returning for another season. There are credible rumors that the Pirates were in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/naylojo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Naylor<\/a> before he <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/11\/16\/mariners-ink-josh-naylor-five-year-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">inked his deal<\/a> with the Seattle Mariners and that they are in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/schwaky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Schwarber<\/a> as well. Like it or not, however, unless and until general manager Ben Cherington signs a hitter, Suwinski is the closest the Pirates have to a left-handed power hitter.<\/p>\n<h3>Return of Ram\u00edrez a Head-Scratcher<\/h3>\n<p>Ram\u00edrez, 30, is the definition of a baseball journeyman. Since the right-hander\u2019s professional career began in 2016, he\u2019s pitched for nine organizations in 20 cities, not counting the Dominican Winter League. He made his major league debut with the Seattle Mariners during the 2020 pandemic-shortened season. He\u2019s pitched in the majors every season since, but never for a full season. For his major league career, he\u2019s 9-12 with a 4.71 ERA, 4.66 FIP, and 1.394 WHIP. With the Pirates in 2025, he was 3-3 with a 5.40 ERA, 3.80 FIP, and 1.470 WHIP. It\u2019s odd that the pitching-rich Pirates think enough of Ram\u00edrez to bring him back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Pirates have agreed to a contract with RHP Yohan Ramirez to avoid arbitration<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alex Stumpf (@AlexJStumpf) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexJStumpf\/status\/1991673901173354745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I search for possible reasons for keeping Ram\u00edrez on the 40-man roster, I note that he began his career with the Houston Astros, the same organization from which the Pirates poached their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/10\/28\/report-pirates-hiring-world-series-champion-pitching-coach-bill-murphy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">new pitching coach<\/a>, Bill Murphy. Murphy would have been Ram\u00edrez\u2019s pitching coach in 2016 in the Gulf Coast League. Might Murphy have had some input here? Might he know something about Ram\u00edrez that the rest of us don\u2019t? Inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Kim Klement-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed outfielder Jack Suwinski and pitcher Yohan Ram\u00edrez to one-year contracts, avoiding arbitration for both players. Suwinski will get $1.25 million, while Ram\u00edrez will receive $875,000. Both came below what they were projected to receive in arbitration. Robert Murray of FanSided broke the news about Suwinski, while Alex Stumpf of mlb.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":109755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1071],"tags":[5720,5588],"class_list":["post-109735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","tag-jack-suwinski","tag-yohan-ramirez"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109735"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109759,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109735\/revisions\/109759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}