{"id":266727,"date":"2025-11-07T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266727\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T01:23:07","slug":"orioles-exercise-9m-option-for-pitcher-andrew-kittredge-for-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/266727\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles exercise $9M option for pitcher Andrew Kittredge for &#8217;26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE &#8212; Right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35872\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kittredge<\/a>&#8216;s $9 million option was exercised Thursday by the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9ca473b8-e73e-a33d-8ea0-b4d160be4be7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a>, who declined <a data-player-guid=\"debd0ad1-bf0a-096f-b374-9d2344ab2e84\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33832\/jorge-mateo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Mateo<\/a>&#8216;s $5.5 million option and allowed the infielder\/outfielder to become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Kittredge, a 35-year-old right-hander, was reacquired from the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"5cda5067-7075-66b1-4b94-2333ab8d9807\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> on Wednesday for cash.<\/p>\n<p>Kittredge agreed in January to a $10 million, one-year contract that includes a the team option with a $1 million buyout. He went 4-3 with five saves and a 3.40 ERA for the Orioles and Cubs, who obtained him on July 31 for minor league shortstop Wilfri De La Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Mateo earned $3.55 million this year. The 30-year-old hit .177 with one homer and three RBIs in 42 games, sidelined between June 6 and Sept. 5 by left elbow inflammation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE &#8212; Right-hander Andrew Kittredge&#8216;s $9 million option was exercised Thursday by the Baltimore Orioles, who declined Jorge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-266727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266727","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=266727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}