{"id":499218,"date":"2026-02-23T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:07:08","slug":"orioles-sign-thairo-estrada-for-depth-after-westburg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499218\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles sign Thairo Estrada for depth after Westburg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

SARASOTA, Fla. — The Baltimore Orioles<\/a> signed veteran Thairo Estrada<\/a> to a minor league deal Monday in a move that adds infield depth with third baseman Jordan Westburg<\/a> out until at least May<\/a> with an elbow injury.<\/p>\n

His deal includes an invitation to spring training.<\/p>\n

Estrada, 30, hit .253 in only 39 games for Colorado<\/a> last season. Estrada’s $7 million mutual option for 2026 was declined on Nov. 3 by the Rockies, triggering a $750,000 buyout. He then refused an outright assignment to Triple-A Albuquerque and elected to become a free agent.<\/p>\n

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He played second base in 2025 with Colorado but has experience at shortstop, third base and the outfield.<\/p>\n

Estrada battled injuries last season. He made his season debut on May 30 after his right wrist was fractured when he was hit by a pitch from Texas<\/a>‘ Kumar Rocker<\/a> on March 20. He was out July 7-25 with a strained right thumb, and his season came to an end Aug. 5 with a strained right hamstring.<\/p>\n

Estrada made his major league debut with the New York Yankees<\/a> in 2019. He played for the San Francisco Giants<\/a> in 2021-24 and set career highs with 14 homers in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. — The Baltimore Orioles signed veteran Thairo Estrada to a minor league deal Monday in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-499218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}