Ramon Vazquez ('96, '97) signed with Pittsburgh.
The Pirates on Friday finalized a two-year contract with free-agent infielder Ramon Vazquez that had been in the works for several days.That excerpt is from the Pirate's website.
Vazquez, 32, reportedly will earn $4 million in the deal and is Pittsburgh's first Major League free-agent pickup since the end of the season. He spent the past two seasons as a backup infielder for Texas and -- for now -- projects to the same role in Pittsburgh, though that could change if discussions at the Winter Meetings turn into a trade of shortstop Jack Wilson.
Whatever Vazquez's role, the Pirates are banking that his career year in 2008 was no fluke. He got exactly 300 at-bats in each of his two Rangers seasons but had much better results in Year 2, boosting his batting average and on-base percentages from .230 and .300 to .290 and .365, and his RBIs from 28 to 40.
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