A Tuesday night time commerce took away one Angel within the outfield.
The Angels added right-handed pitcher Grayson Rodriguez in a take care of the Orioles in change for outfielder Taylor Ward.
Rodriguez missed all the 2025 season resulting from an ongoing elbow damage that finally led to him having surgical procedure in August.
The righty pitched in 43 video games — all begins — for the Orioles after making his huge league debut in 2023.
In that span, he’s registered a 4.11 ERA and struck out 259 batters whereas compiling a 20-8 report. Rodriguez, a former high prospect, remains to be below group management by means of 2029.
From the sounds of Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias final week on the GM conferences in Las Vegas, it didn’t seem that Baltimore envisioned huge plans for Rodriguez in 2026.
“You miss a 12 months and two months, we’ve bought to be practical about that, and it’s not one thing that we’re planning round very closely. However he’s a man that gives an actual wild card for us talent-wise,” Elias mentioned, in keeping with MLB.com’s Jake Rill.
“Planning round that’s one thing that we’ve bought to hedge in opposition to,” Elias added. “However it will be superior to have him present up and pitch for us the way in which that he’s able to, and I feel there’s a very good likelihood that that occurs.”
Rumors circulated about Ward presumably being moved by the Angels, with the outfielder getting into his closing 12 months of group management.
Ward hit .228/.317/.475 with 36 house runs and 103 RBIs in 157 video games with the Angels in 2025.
