{"id":809695,"date":"2026-07-18T08:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809695\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T08:19:08","slug":"orioles-acquire-rudy-martin-jr-from-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809695\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Acquire Rudy Martin Jr. From Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

10:58pm: The clubs officially announced the trade. Bassitt has been moved to the 60-day injured list as the corresponding 40-man roster move. He has been sidelined since June 5 with a back injury that required minor surgery a few weeks ago. Manager Craig Albernaz said this afternoon that the veteran righty is throwing long toss (via Jacob Calvin Meyer of The Baltimore Sun<\/a>). The O\u2019s still expect him back this season, but he has yet to begin a rehab assignment and wasn\u2019t going to be ready before the end of July.<\/p>\n

7:36pm: The Royals are trading outfielder\u00a0Rudy Martin Jr.<\/a> to the Orioles, reports Ari Alexander of 7 Boston News<\/a>. Baltimore will select him onto the 40-man roster and option him to Triple-A Norfolk. Trades like this usually involve a nominal cash consideration going back in return.<\/p>\n

Martin is a 30-year-old who has never appeared in the majors. He began his professional career more than a decade ago. The Royals drafted Martin in the 25th round out of a Mississippi high school in 2014. He spent time in the Washington farm system and in the Mexican league before returning to the Royals on a minor league deal last year.<\/p>\n

That contract included an upward mobility clause, which Martin triggered earlier in the week. That meant the Royals had to offer him to the 29 other teams, any of whom could elect to put him on their 40-man roster. Kansas City could then either put him on their 40-man or send him to Baltimore.<\/p>\n

The 5\u20198\u2033 Martin has spent the majority of the season with Double-A Northwest Arkansas. He hit well there and has been even better since earning a promotion to Triple-A in late June. Martin has a combined .284\/.414\/.441 slash line across 255 plate appearances. He has walked at a huge 16.1% clip against a league average 23.5% strikeout rate. Martin has hit eight homers and stolen 33 bases in 40 tries.<\/p>\n

That strong production has earned Martin a spot on a 40-man roster for the first time. This\u00a0doesn\u2019t guarantee that he\u2019ll ever play in the majors but is a significant career milestone in its own right. Baltimore has\u00a0Taylor Ward<\/a>,\u00a0Dylan Beavers<\/a>,\u00a0Colton Cowser<\/a>, Leody Taveras<\/a>,\u00a0Tyler O\u2019Neill<\/a> and utilityman\u00a0Jeremiah Jackson<\/a> as outfield options on the MLB roster.\u00a0Heston Kjerstad<\/a>,\u00a0Reed Trimble<\/a> and\u00a0Johnathan Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> are all on optional assignments to Norfolk.<\/p>\n

The O\u2019s have a full 40-man roster and churn through the final few spots more than any other team. Chris Bassitt<\/a> or\u00a0Blaze Alexander<\/a> could be candidates for a move to the 60-day injured list, though they also have a number of recently acquired depth types they could look to sneak through waivers to open a spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10:58pm: The clubs officially announced the trade. Bassitt has been moved to the 60-day injured list as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,7204,462,284152,82],"class_list":["post-809695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chris-bassitt","tag-mlb","tag-rudy-martin-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809695","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=809695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}