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Pirates and Bryan Reynolds Reportedly Agree to Eight-Year Deal

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According to Robert Murray, the Pittsburgh Pirates and outfielder Bryan Reynolds have agreed on an eight-year deal worth $106.75M. The deal runs through the 2030 season, with a team option for 2031. Murray also says that there is “a form of no-trade protection”.

Murray also has the year-by-year breakdown of the trade here:

The deal includes a signing bonus and a buyout of the 2031 option if the team doesn’t pick up that year.

Reynolds got off to a fast start this season. He’s currently hitting .294/.319/.553 in 22 games. Over five seasons with the team, the 28-year-old has a .282/.359/.484 slash line in 515 games. He has accumulated 14.0 WAR in his career.

As noted by Murray, this is now the richest deal in Pirates history.

If Reynolds continues to produce at his current standards, then this will be a very team-friendly deal that also has Reynolds comfortable for life. He likely could have made more playing through until free agency, but that’s assuming he didn’t see any drop-off over the next 2+ seasons. Now it’s all a moot point, as the Pirates have him locked up until at least 2030.

Here’s an added tidbit on the deal from Jon Heyman:

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John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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