{"id":261767,"date":"2025-11-04T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:03:07","slug":"chicago-cubs-trade-andrew-kittredge-back-to-baltimore-orioles-for-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/261767\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Cubs trade Andrew Kittredge back to Baltimore Orioles for cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/chicago-cubs\/240\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a>&#8216; rental of right-handed reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/andrew-kittredge\/577676\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/andrew-kittredge\/577676\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kittredge<\/a> is over, with the team trading him back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/baltimore-orioles\/225\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> Tuesday for cash considerations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kittredge, 35, pitched in 23 games for Chicago in the regular season, posting a 3.38 ERA. He had five saves when the Cubs had to fill in for injured reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/daniel-palencia\/1289743\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/daniel-palencia\/1289743\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Palencia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kittredge made another five appearances in the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chicago acquired him from Baltimore at the trade deadline for a minor leaguer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Cubs will have to remake their bullpen this offseason. Key pieces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/drew-pomeranz\/390654\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/drew-pomeranz\/390654\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Pomeranz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/brad-keller\/737865\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/brad-keller\/737865\" target=\"_blank\">Brad Keller<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/caleb-thielbar\/502074\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/caleb-thielbar\/502074\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Thielbar<\/a> are all free agents &#8212; as are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/taylor-rogers\/503168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/taylor-rogers\/503168\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Rogers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ryan-brasier\/390196\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ryan-brasier\/390196\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Brasier<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/michael-soroka\/874715\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/michael-soroka\/874715\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Soroka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kittredge trade was the second pitching move for the Cubs Tuesday. Jesse Rogers reported that the team and starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shota-imanaga\/907357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/shota-imanaga\/907357\" target=\"_blank\">Shota Imanaga<\/a> declined their contract options, setting up the lefty to hit free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Cubs&#8216; rental of right-handed reliever Andrew Kittredge is over, with the team trading him back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[121272,121271,49,48,100494,462,82],"class_list":["post-261767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-kittredge-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-577676","tag-baltimore-orioles-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-225","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-cubs-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-240","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}