After missing out on Eugenio Suárez last week, the Pittsburgh Pirates have pivoted to a different kind of power bat.
Pittsburgh has reportedly agreed to a one-year, $12 million deal with veteran DH Marcell Ozuna, per Jon Heyman. It’s a move that feels equal parts necessary and complicated.
On the surface, Ozuna makes sense. Even in a “down” 2025 season by his standards, the 35-year-old posted a .232/.355/.400 line with 21 homers and a career-best 15.9% walk rate across 592 plate appearances for the Atlanta Braves. He was feast-or-famine — scorching in April and May, ice cold in June, then steady but unspectacular the rest of the way — yet still finished as a better-than-average offensive performer.