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Pirates Have Reportedly Approached At Least Four Extension Candidates

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According to Ken Rosenthal, the Pittsburgh Pirates have approached Joe Musgrove, Bryan Reynolds, Kevin Newman and Ke’Bryan Hayes about contract extensions. Rosenthal also notes that there could be more than just those four players.

Hayes has yet to play a big league game, so a contract extension at this point could lead to him making the Opening Day roster this year. The team obviously won’t come out and say that, but an extension would open up that possibility.

Reynolds is still under team control for six more years. He fell nine days short of a full year of service time last year. That would make him Super 2 eligible after the 2021 season if he doesn’t sign an extension.

Newman has five full years left before he hits free agency, while Musgrove is the closest to his free agency. The Pirates have him under control for three more seasons.

We will have more on this news later this morning.

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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