{"id":681440,"date":"2026-05-19T19:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:40:19","slug":"orioles-select-albert-suarez-designate-maverick-handley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681440\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Select Albert Suarez, Designate Maverick Handley"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orioles on Tuesday selected the contract of righty Albert Suarez<\/a> from Triple-A Norfolk and designated catcher Maverick Handley<\/a> for assignment, per a team announcement. Handley\u2019s DFA opens a 40-man spot for Suarez. Baltimore optioned righty Cameron Foster<\/a> to Norfolk to make room on the active roster.<\/p>\n

Suarez, 36, has been a heavily used swingman for the Orioles since making a 2024 return from the Korea Baseball Organization. He started 24 games and made another eight relief outings in \u201924 and has appeared in 11 games over the past two seasons, mostly out of the \u2018pen, while also missing time with injuries.<\/p>\n

Overall, since Suarez joined the Orioles on a minor league deal in the 2023-24 offseason, he\u2019s given them 161 innings of 3.58 ERA ball split between 25 starts and 18 relief outings. This will be his second big league stint of the season. The O\u2019s already passed him through waivers once. He\u2019s made two starts in Norfolk, totaling nine innings and allowing four runs with a 7-to-2 K\/BB ratio.<\/p>\n

An ugly start from Trevor Rogers<\/a> yesterday led to both Foster and Dietrich Enns<\/a> throwing 35-plus pitches. Suarez will give the bullpen a fresh arm in the event that the O\u2019s need some more length in today\u2019s game. Since he\u2019s been starting in Norfolk, he\u2019s stretched out for multiple innings if need be.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Handley has been up-and-down between Norfolk and Baltimore and on-and-off the Orioles\u2019 40-man roster over the past calendar year. He\u2019s totaled only 48 major league plate appearances and gone 3-for-42 with a trio of singles and a 39.6% strikeout rate. Handley posted decent numbers in Triple-A last year (.258\/.373\/.367) and has steadily posted big walk rates throughout his time in the minors. He\u2019s a glove-first backup who can work counts but has a sub-par hit tool and well below-average power.<\/p>\n

Baltimore will have five days to trade Handley or place him on waivers. If he clears waivers, he\u2019ll have the option to reject an outright assignment and become a free agent, which hasn\u2019t been available to him in the past. However, he\u2019s spent his whole career in the Orioles organization since being selected in the sixth round of the 2019 draft, so he may opt to stick with the only club he\u2019s known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles on Tuesday selected the contract of righty Albert Suarez from Triple-A Norfolk and designated catcher Maverick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[171706,64,63,328586,591,85],"class_list":["post-681440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-albert-suarez","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-maverick-handley","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681440","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=681440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}