{"id":276140,"date":"2025-11-06T23:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276140\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:49:08","slug":"kittredges-9-million-option-exercised-by-orioles-who-decline-mateos-5-5-million-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/276140\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittredge&#8217;s $9 million option exercised by Orioles, who decline Mateo&#8217;s $5.5 million option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles have exercised Andrew Kittredge&#8217;s $9 million option. The right-hander was reacquired from the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday. Kittredge, 35,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>BALTIMORE(AP) \u2014 Right-hander Andrew Kittredge&#8217;s $9 million option was exercised Thursday by the Baltimore Orioles, who declined Jorge Mateo&#8217;s $5.5 million option and allowed the infielder\/outfielder to become a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Kittredge, a 35-year-old right-hander, was reacquired from the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday for cash. <\/p>\n<p>Kittredge agreed in January to a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/orioles-andrew-kittredge-contract-d339e3963e544616cf8dc6a9b0d42488\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$10 million, one-year contract<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/michael-soroka-trade-cubs-nationals-97fb4e3ba0c2204c835f4225a3d5be2a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">obtained him on July 31 for minor league shortstop Wilfri De La Cruz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mateo <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/orioles-jorge-mateo-contract-4e5028942680164d2a663d60e2106009\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earned $3.55 million this year<\/a>. 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<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Orioles have exercised Andrew Kittredge&#8217;s $9 million option. The right-hander was reacquired from the Chicago Cubs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-276140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}