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Pirates, Bryan Reynolds agree to $13.5M, 2-year deal
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No wage arbitration listening to for Bryan Reynolds this yr, and that’s greater than high quality with him.
The All-Star heart fielder has agreed to a two-year take care of the Pittsburgh Pirates value $13.5 million. The contract, introduced Thursday, can pay Reynolds $6.75 million per season.
Reynolds and the Pirates had been scheduled to go to arbitration after failing to come back to an settlement on a one-year deal for 2022. Reynolds requested for $4.9 million, with Pittsburgh countering with $4.25 million.
Pittsburgh Pirates’ Bryan Reynolds tosses his bat after placing out in the course of the third inning of a spring coaching baseball recreation towards the Toronto Blue Jays, Friday, April 1, 2022, in Bradenton, Fla.
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“I at all times hoped this might be the end result and it was the end result, so I’d say this was a win-win,” Reynolds stated. “I don’t assume anyone ever desires to go to a listening to. For me, personally, I like Pittsburgh. I like my teammates and all the things like that. To knock it out shortly like we did and to land the place we’re at, I believe it labored out very well.”
The 27-year-old Reynolds has blossomed with the Pirates after coming over within the January 2018 commerce that despatched 2013 NL MVP Andrew McCutchen to San Francisco. Reynolds reached the majors in 2019 and moved to heart discipline in 2021, hitting .302 with 24 homers and 90 RBIs and turning into a finalist for a Gold Glove.
Reynolds is batting .227 with one residence run in 5 video games to date this season for Pittsburgh. The Pirates are off to a 2-3 begin heading into Thursday night time’s recreation towards Washington.
The settlement comes two days after Pittsburgh signed third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes to an eight-year, $70 million contract.
Hayes was pleased to see Reynolds’ contract scenario get resolved.
“It’s superior,” Hayes stated. “That’s a part of the rationale I signed. I really feel like we’re shifting in the proper path. It’s wonderful to have a man like that, center of the order-type of man. He’s expressed that he desires to remain right here. It’s superior to get a man like that, maintain him right here for 2 years.”