{"id":90680,"date":"2025-02-12T21:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=90680"},"modified":"2025-02-12T21:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T02:33:09","slug":"padres-sign-nick-pivetta-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/02\/12\/padres-sign-nick-pivetta-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Right-Hander Nick Pivetta Signs Four-Year Deal with Padres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The San Diego Padres<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and longtime Boston Red Sox right-hander Nick Pivetta have come to terms on a four-year, $55 million<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> deal, according to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pivetta joins <\/span>the Padres<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after spending five seasons in Boston, where he made 131 appearances (107 starts) with a 4.29 ERA. The 31-year-old right-hander earned $7.5 million in his final arbitration year and was one of 12 players who declined the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/10\/10\/mlb-record-breaking-qualifying-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one-year, $21.05 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> qualifying offer. <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1889859975960555704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passan reports<\/a> that the deal contains opt-outs after the second and third seasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Right-hander Nick Pivetta and the San Diego Padres are in agreement on a four-year, $55 million contract that includes a pair of opt-outs, pending physical, sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1889859851721043974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Passan: Padres Sign Free Agent Right-Hander Nick Pivetta to Four-Year Deal<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drafted by the Nationals in 2013, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pivetta<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> made his MLB debut for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2017. He started 26 games for Philadelphia, finishing the season with an 8-10 record, 6.01 ERA, and 140 strikeouts over 133 innings. Pivetta led all major league rookies with 9.47 strikeouts per nine innings, the highest by a Phillies rookie with at least 25 starts. The following year, he was fifth in the National League with 10.32 strikeouts per nine innings, the second-highest rate of any Phillies pitcher in franchise history. Pivetta made three appearances with Philadelphia during the COVID-shortened 2020 season before being traded to the Red Sox.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heading into his age-32 season, Pivetta posted a 4.14 ERA over 145 \u2154 innings in 2024 and has the upside of a front-line starter. The veteran right-hander struck out 28.9% of opponents with 10.6 strikeouts per nine innings, the second-highest rate of his career. He had a strong September, posting a 2.54 ERA while striking out 31 over his final five starts of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite a near-league average ERA, his 3.51 expected ERA and .291 xwOBA were among the best in MLB. With plus stuff and plus command, Pivetta has big-arm potential, he just needs to put the pieces together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Eric Canha-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Padres and longtime Boston Red Sox right-hander Nick Pivetta have come to terms on a four-year, $55 million deal, according to ESPN&#8217;s Jeff Passan. Pivetta joins the Padres after spending five seasons in Boston, where he made 131 appearances (107 starts) with a 4.29 ERA. 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