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Rich Hill agrees to 1-year deal with Pirates (source)

This was first reported by MLB.com

Justice delos Santos
@justdelossantos

The Pirates agreed to a one-year, $8 million deal with left-handed starter Rich Hill, pending a physical, a source told MLB.com, the latest in what has been a long list of acquisitions for Pittsburgh over the past two months.

Hill, who will turn 43 in March, continued to defy Father Time in 2022, posting a 4.27 ERA and a 3.92 FIP across 124 1/3 innings with the Red Sox.

Even in his 40s, Hill has remained an effective starter. Since the beginning of 2020, Hill owns a 3.92 ERA and a 4.14 FIP with 8.11 strikeouts per nine innings to 3.05 walks per nine innings. Hill still possesses a penchant for minimizing loud contact, ranking in the 88th percentile of hard-hit rate in '20 and 79th percentile in '21 and '22.

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