{"id":2731,"date":"2016-12-19T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonbaseball.com\/?p=2731"},"modified":"2016-12-20T01:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:33:35","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-sign-daniel-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2016\/12\/19\/pittsburgh-pirates-sign-daniel-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates Sign Daniel Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Pittsburgh Pirates<\/strong> added depth to their bullpen on Monday with the signing of reliever <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hudsoda01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Hudson<\/a><\/strong>, per <strong>FOX Sports<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>Ken Rosenthal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source confirms: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pirates?src=hash\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Pirates<\/a> sign free-agent RHP Daniel Hudson, two years, $11M. First reported: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jeffpassan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/810951078418247680\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 19, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Pittsburgh Pirates Sign Daniel Hudson<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The deal is for $11 million over two years. The 29-year-old appeared in a career-high 70 games for the <strong>Arizona Diamondbacks<\/strong> in 2016, amassing a 5.22 ERA and a 1.442 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Originally a starter, Hudson was drafted by the <strong>Chicago White Sox<\/strong> in the fifth round of the 2008 <strong>Major League Baseball<\/strong>\u00a0draft. He made his big league debut with the club in 2009 at age 22. He started six games for the White Sox in 2009 and three in 2010 before being traded to Arizona. The trade brought starter <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jacksed01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edwin Jackson<\/a><\/strong> to Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Hudson went 7-1 with the Diamondbacks in 2010 with a 1.69 ERA. His best season in the desert came in 2011 when he went 16-12 and threw 222 innings. He also hit .277 that year and brought home a <strong>Silver Slugger Award<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>From Starter to Reliever<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The next part of Hudson&#8217;s career was marred by injury. He went down in July 2012 with an arm injury that required <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnto01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy John<\/a><\/strong> surgery. Less than a year after the initial procedure, he hit another roadblock and underwent a second TJ surgery. He returned to the Diamondbacks in 2015 as a full-time reliever, appearing in 64 games with a 3.86 ERA.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>A Veteran Bullpen<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>For the Pirates, the move adds depth to a bullpen laced with veteran arms. With the likes of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/nicasju01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Nicasio<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/watsoto01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tony Watson<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bastaan01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Bastardo<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hugheja02.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Hughes<\/a><\/strong>, experience shouldn\u2019t be a problem for the Pirates bullpen. Those five averaged 65 appearances in 2016. What they lack, however, is a ninth-inning reliever with swing-and-miss stuff. 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Source confirms: #Pirates sign free-agent RHP Daniel Hudson, two years, $11M. First reported: @jeffpassan. \u2014 Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 19, 2016 Pittsburgh Pirates Sign Daniel Hudson The deal is for $11 million over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1586,"featured_media":2732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[35,26],"tags":[68,830,69,231],"class_list":["post-2731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pirates","tag-baseball","tag-daniel-hudson","tag-mlb","tag-pittsburgh-pirates"],"modified_by":"Josh Greenberg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731","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\/1586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}