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Weekly Report: O'Hearn Official; Santana, Cruz, Bart, Lawrence Ink Arb Deals, Team & MLB Snippets & Moves

Monday, January 12, 2026 7:33

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Arb and stuff…

Pirates Stuff:

Arb class covered: The Pirates and back-ender Dennis Santana agreed on a $3.5M contract; OF Oneal Cruz signed a $3.3M deal; C Joey Bart inked a $2.53 agreement and LH reliever Justin Lawrence sealed the deal by putting his John Hancock on a $1.225M pact. OF Jack Suwinski ($1.25M) and RHP Yohan Ramirez ($825,000) had opened the arb signing season in November.
Ryan O’Hearn officially signed his two year/$29M contract on Thursday, two weeks after it was announced in the media. The Bucs cleared a 40-man spot by DFA’ing RHP Chase Shugart.

Ryan O’Hearn – 1/8/2026 Signing Presser / image SportsNet Pgh

Free-agent RH reliever Chris Devenski has signed a minor league deal with the Pirates. The 35-year-old has a career 27-22-8/3.91 line over 10 big league seasons, posting a 2.16 ERA in 13 Mets outings last year. Pittsburgh also signed RHP Noah Davis to a minor league deal. He’s worked parts of four MLB seasons, mostly with the Rox. His track record: 0-6/9.53 in 27 outings (62-1/3 IP w/58 K).
RHP Jared Jones tossed his first bullpen since internal brace surgery on his elbow. He’s projected to be ready for action between March-May and looks at this point to return on schedule.
MLB Pipeline’s exec poll picked the Pirates as having the fifth best minor league system (it was also considered the most underrated) and second-best at hoarding, as in keeping & developing, home grown players. Surprisingly, they didn’t crack the farm league rankings for developing pitchers.
The season kickoff: NBC Sports’ Opening Day matinee (shown on March 26 at 1 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock) features our Buccos and presumably Paul Skenes @ the New York Mets.

Whatta year for Konnor – 2025 Donruss Diamond Marvels

The Pirates primo prospect, Konnor Griffin, won MLB Pipeline’s exec vote as the best defensive SS in the minors. In the Tools category, he also took the Usable Power title, a catch-all phrase for potential big league bopping. Konnor was also second on the Best Hit Tool and Most Speed lists. The pitchers did OK, too – Bubba Chandler was second in the Best Fastball category and Seth Hernandez was tied for third for the Best Secondary Pitch; his change-up is elite and he also tosses a curve and slider.

MLB Stuff:

Ex-Buc and current Cubbie RHP Jamison Taillon, who holds dual US-Canadian citizenship, announced that he’ll join Team Canada for the WBC. He last repped the Canadian nine in 2013.
RHP Tyler Beede, who worked 25 games for the Bucs in 2022, has signed a minor league deal with the Cubs.
Arizona inked RHP Thomas Hatch to a minor league/NRI contract; he worked a dozen games for the Bucs in 2023.
IF/OF Marco Luciano was claimed by Baltimore. The Pirates DFA’ed him a couple of weeks ago after having picked him up off waivers from the Giants on December 5th. He’s 24, but out of options.

Cheng Off To Tampa – Topps MLB The Show 2024

IF Tsung-Che Cheng was claimed off waivers to the Tampa Bay Rays. He had a cup of coffee with the big team last year, and in a quick three-game peek, went 0-for-7. Once a hot prospect, he hit .224 for Altoona in ’24 and followed by batting .209 at Indy in ’25 to earned a post-season DFA from the Bucs. OF Edward Olivares, who was with the Bucs in 2024 (.224/5/23 in 55 games) and then went to Japan last year has also signed with the Rays. Ditto for C Blake Sabol, who was a Pirate property until 2023 when the Giants claimed him; he’s played for them and Boston. All the contracts were minor-league deals.
The Mets announced that IF/OF Ji Hwan Bae, claimed from the Bucs this off season, was outrighted to AAA Syracuse.

Source: https://oldbucs.blogspot.com/2026/01/weekly-report-ohearn-official-santana.html

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