BALTIMORE \u2014 Another Baltimore Orioles player has been dealt to a division rival ahead of the trade deadline.<\/p>\n
Right-handed reliever Tyler Wells has been traded to the Tampa Bay Rays, according to ESPN MLB insider Jeff Passan.<\/p>\n
The Orioles acquired 22-year-old right-handed pitcher Michael Forret in the trade, who the Orioles traded to the Rays as part of the Shane Baz deal on December 19, 2025. <\/p>\n
Forett was originally picked by Baltimore in the 14th round of the 2023 First-Year Player Draft of the State College of Florida. <\/p>\n
Wells, 31, made his debut with the Orioles during the 2021 season.<\/p>\n
This season, he has tallied 53 strikeouts and posted a 2.67 ERA with a 0.96 WHIP and has been 2-2 with four saves.<\/p>\n
His final game came in the Orioles’ lone victory against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 31. <\/p>\n
So far this deadline period, the team has dealt Taylor Ward to the Seattle Mariners and catcher Adley Rutschman to the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n
The MLB trade deadline is set for 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Another Baltimore Orioles player has been dealt to a division rival ahead of the trade deadline.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84500,147342,147343,147344,147345,147346,145928,147347,147348,147349,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-362228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-american-league-east","tag-baltimore-orioles-trades","tag-baseball-pitcher-trade","tag-baseball-trades-2026","tag-division-rival-trade","tag-mlb-roster-moves","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-mlb-transaction","tag-orioles-prospects","tag-orioles-reliever","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}