{"id":267363,"date":"2025-11-07T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267363\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:10:08","slug":"orioles-exercise-9m-option-for-pitcher-andrew-kittredge-for-26-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267363\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles exercise $9M option for pitcher Andrew Kittredge for ’26"},"content":{"rendered":"

BALTIMORE — Right-hander Andrew Kittredge<\/a>‘s $9 million option was exercised Thursday by the Baltimore Orioles<\/a>, who declined Jorge Mateo<\/a>‘s $5.5 million option and allowed the infielder\/outfielder to become a free agent.<\/p>\n

Baltimore also agreed to a $2.1 million, one-year deal with free agent outfielder Leody Taveras<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kittredge, a 35-year-old right-hander, was reacquired from the Chicago Cubs<\/a> on Wednesday for cash.<\/p>\n

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

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

The 27-year-old Taveras hit .205 in 58 games last season for Texas<\/a> and Seattle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baltimore designated right-hander Carson Ragsdale<\/a> and left-hander Josh Walker<\/a> for assignment, and outfielders Dylan Carlson<\/a> and Daniel Johnson cleared waivers and elected free agency in lieu of accepting assignment to Triple-A Norfolk. The Orioles selected the contract of right-hander Anthony Nunez from Norfolk.<\/p>\n

Left-hander Jose Castillo<\/a> was claimed off waivers by the New York Mets<\/a>, and Baltimore claimed outfielder Pedro Leon<\/a> off waivers from the Houston Astros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Right-hander Shawn Dubin<\/a> cleared waivers, was assigned to Norfolk and is now a minor league free agent. The Orioles have 40 players on their 40-man roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE — Right-hander Andrew Kittredge‘s $9 million option was exercised Thursday by the Baltimore Orioles, who declined Jorge…\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-267363","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\/267363","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=267363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267363\/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=267363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}