{"id":948491,"date":"2026-11-01T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948491\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T07:36:14","slug":"orioles-decline-luis-robert-jr-s-20-million-club-option-for-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/948491\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles decline Luis Robert Jr.&#8217;s $20 million club option for 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orioles claimed Robert off waivers from the New York Mets on Aug. 31, assuming an obligation of roughly $4.9 million from the Mets \u2014 the remainder of this year&#8217;s salary plus a $2 million buyout of the 2027 option. The Chicago White Sox had picked up his $20 million option for 2026 before trading him to the Mets last offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Robert played only three games for the Orioles before landing on the injured list because of hamstring issues. He&#8217;s struggled to regain the form he showed when he was an all-star in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Robert hit .221 with 11 home runs and 26 RBIs in 61 games.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore also announced Saturday that right-hander Albert Su\u00e1rez and infielder Jos\u00e9 Barrero cleared waivers and elected free agency, right-hander Codi Heuer accepted an outright assignment to triple-A Norfolk, and right-hander Colin Selby was also assigned to Norfolk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles claimed Robert off waivers from the New York Mets on Aug. 31, assuming an obligation of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-948491","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\/948491","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=948491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}