{"id":374358,"date":"2025-12-29T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374358\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:35:08","slug":"orioles-reunite-with-starter-zach-eflin-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374358\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles reunite with starter Zach Eflin on one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore brought back right-handed starter Zach Eflin on a one-year deal with a mutual option for 2027, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Orioles\/status\/2005466355320107375?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced on Sunday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eflin, 31, battled injury in 2025 with the Orioles, throwing just 71.1 innings while carrying a 5.93 ERA over 14 starts. He was eventually shut down in early August, as he underwent a lumbar microdiscectomy to help his ailing back amid a disappointing season in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-year MLB veteran landed with the Orioles in 2024 in a trade with the Tampa Bay Rays. He emerged as an important part of Baltimore&#8217;s rotation down the stretch of that season and worked four innings of one-run ball in the wild-card round against the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, the six-foot-six Eflin owns a 4.28 ERA in 1,073.2 innings with Philadelphia, Tampa Bay and Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Eflin will return to a new-look Orioles team in 2025. Baltimore has been busy this off-season, signing Pete Alonso and Ryan Helsley in free agency and trading for Shane Baz and Taylor Ward.<\/p>\n<p>After making the post-season in 2023 and 2024, the Orioles were among MLB&#8217;s biggest underperformers in 2025, winning only 75 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore brought back right-handed starter Zach Eflin on a one-year deal with a mutual option for 2027, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-374358","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\/374358","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=374358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}