The Pittsburgh Pirates agree to re-sign right-handed starting pitcher Ivan Nova on Thursday. 

Nova and the Pirates agree to a three-year, $26 million contract with a $2 million signing bonus. 

The once promising pitcher had a revival in Pittsburgh during the second half of last season, and he has decided to stay with the team that helped him rediscover his once-exciting potential. 

The Philadelphia Phillies have acquired right-handed pitcher Clay Buchholz from the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday. 

In exchange for Buchholz, the Red Sox have received minor league second baseman Josh Tobias. In the trade, the Phillies will be picking up all of Buchholz's remaining salary. 

The deal provides Phiadelphia some much-needed rotation depth in the transition period between rebuilding and contention. Buchholz is signed through just 2017, but he should be a nice bridge to the top prospects coming up the pipeline. 

And if Buchholz can return to old form, he could provide some major upside in Philadelphia, who may decide to keep him like they did with Jeremy Hellickson over the past calendar year. 

The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed right-handed pitcher Daniel Hudson, a source confirmed to Cover Those Bases on Monday.

Hudson's deal with the Pirates is for two years and is worth $11 million, the source said. The deal includes $1.5 million in incentives for both seasons based on games finished. They begin to kick when Hudson finishes 30 games, and they will max out if he finishes 60.
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Hudson will add to the back-end of a Pirates bullpen that has lost two crucial pieces in the last calendar year in Mark Melancon and Neftali Feliz (who is still a free agent at the time of this writing).

The Miami Marlins have signed right-handed pitcher Brad Ziegler on Friday evening, FOX Sports' Ken Rosenthal reports. 

According to Rosenthal, the Marlins and Ziegler have reached a two-year, $16 million pact. SB Nation's Chris Cotillo reports that Ziegler's deal includes $2 million worth of incentives that would push the total guarnatee to $18 million. 

Other than the Marlins, the Nationals, Rockies, Diamondbacks, Mets, Yankees and others also showed varying degrees of interest in the submarine artist throughout the offseason. 

The Philadelphia Phillies have extended outfielder Odubel Herrera, they announced on Thursday. 

The Phillies and Herrera reached a five-year contract with team options for the 2022 and 2023 seasons, per the announcement. According to Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Herrera will make a guaranteed $30.5 million over the course of the deal. 

And, according to Todd Zolecki of MLB.com, Herrera's team options will be worth $11.5 and $12.5 million, respectviely.