{"id":60198,"date":"2025-11-19T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60198\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:30:11","slug":"orioles-trade-grayson-rodriguez-to-angels-for-taylor-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/60198\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles trade Grayson Rodriguez to Angels for Taylor Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The Orioles acquired outfielder Taylor Ward from the Angels on Tuesday night for right-hander Grayson Rodriguez in one of the first big moves of baseball\u2019s offseason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The 31-year-old Ward hit a career-high 36 home runs this past season, and he\u2019ll join an Orioles team hoping to rebound after falling to last place in the AL East. To get him, Baltimore gave up the oft-injured Rodriguez, who was considered a potential ace for the Orioles but missed the entire 2025 season with elbow and lat problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">The 26-year-old Rodriguez is 20-8 with a 4.11 ERA in 43 big league starts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-22HXHQP7YBJIQW6OKA7DVMTN3U-image\" alt=\"Grayson Rodriguez, who was considered a future ace as a prospect, did not pitch last season due to elbow and lat injuries.\" class=\"height_a width_full invisible width_full--mobile width_full--tablet-only\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/22HXHQP7YBJIQW6OKA7DVMTN3U.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/>Grayson Rodriguez, who was considered a future ace as a prospect, did not pitch last season due to elbow and lat injuries.Stephanie Scarbrough\/Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">It\u2019s a trade that could be fascinating to look back on a couple of years from now, given Rodriguez\u2019s boom-or-bust potential, but Baltimore clearly was looking for another bat after some of its young hitters disappointed this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Ward made $7,825,000 last season. He is eligible for arbitration and can become a free agent after the 2026 World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\">Rodriguez is on track to become eligible for arbitration following the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles acquired outfielder Taylor Ward from the Angels on Tuesday night for right-hander Grayson Rodriguez in one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,15958],"class_list":{"0":"post-60198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-red-sox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}