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Pittsburgh Pirates and Ben Cherington take First Concrete Step Towards Declaring a Rebuild

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed catcher Luke Maile (financial details pending) to a Major League contract as discussed in an earlier article published here on Rum Bunter. His contract is for the 2020 season, but being an arbitration one player he will be under team control through 2022.

Luke Maile is signing MLB deal with Pirates. The free agent catcher had been with Jays.

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) December 16, 2019

Maile has a career .198/.252/.304 slash over 5 years and 657 plate appearances.