{"id":451327,"date":"2026-02-05T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451327\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:34:10","slug":"orioles-acquire-blaze-alexander-in-trade-with-diamondbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/451327\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles acquire Blaze Alexander in trade with Diamondbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9ca473b8-e73e-a33d-8ea0-b4d160be4be7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> have acquired utility player <a data-player-guid=\"223121b4-3a9f-f234-18f2-d633835d7353\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41345\/blaze-alexander\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blaze Alexander<\/a> in a trade with the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"43e14a76-ff66-49ed-24fc-2835932f99dd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>, who get reliever <a data-player-guid=\"6e650d6b-5eec-3dc9-8ad5-dcccf2a9093c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5125912\/kade-strowd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kade Strowd<\/a> and minor league players Wellington Aracena and Jos\u00e9 Mejia in return.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Alexander is a versatile and athletic player who has played third base, shortstop, second base, left field and center field for the Diamondbacks over the past two seasons. He hit .230 with seven homers and 28 RBIs last season.<\/p>\n<p>Strowd, 28, had a 1.71 ERA in 25 appearances for the Orioles last season, striking out 24 over 26\u2153 innings. Aracena, 21, is a right-handed pitcher who played in Single-A last season while the 20-year-old Mejia is an infielder who spent most of last year in rookie ball.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Baltimore Orioles have acquired utility player Blaze Alexander in a trade with the Arizona Diamondbacks, who get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-451327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451327","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=451327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}