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Pirates, McCutchen reunite on reported 1-year, $5M deal

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Andrew McCutchen is heading back to where it all started.

The Pittsburgh Pirates and the veteran outfielder reunited Friday, with McCutchen signing a one-year deal, sources told Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The contract is worth $5 million, Justice delos Santos of MLB.com reports.

McCutchen received the same offer from the Minnesota Twins and more from the New York Mets, a source told FanSided's Kody Duncan.

The 36-year-old spent the first nine years of his career with the Pirates, making five All-Star teams and winning the 2013 NL MVP.

Since getting traded by the Pirates during the 2017 campaign for Bryan Reynolds and Kyle Crick, McCutchen has made stops with the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and Milwaukee Brewers.

Most recently, with the Brewers, the four-time Silver Slugger hit .237/.316/.384 with 17 homers and eight stolen bases over 134 games.

While he played center field for the majority of his career, he's mostly relegated to corner outfielder duties as a veteran. He joins a Pittsburgh outfield corps that includes Reynolds and Jack Suwinski.

For his career, McCutchen boasts an .838 OPS (129 OPS+) with 287 home runs and 205 steals in 1,895 games across 14 seasons. He is 13 homers away from 300 and 52 hits away from 2,000.

McCutchen was selected 11th overall by the Pirates in the 2005 MLB Draft and made his big-league debut in 2009 as a 22-year-old. He went on to help lead the Pirates to the postseason on three separate occasions from 2013-15, during which he went 9-for-28 with one double and six walks over eight playoff contests. He also made a postseason appearance for the Yankees in 2018 but has never made it beyond the divisional series.

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