{"id":774813,"date":"2026-07-20T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774813\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T23:57:08","slug":"orioles-place-adley-rutschman-on-il-dfa-rudy-martin-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/774813\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Place Adley Rutschman On IL, DFA Rudy Martin Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orioles on Monday placed catcher Adley Rutschman<\/a> on the 10-day injured list due to inflammation in his left wrist. In a corresponding move, Baltimore selected the contract of backstop Chadwick Tromp<\/a> from Triple-A Norfolk. Recently acquired<\/a> outfielder Rudy Martin<\/a> Jr. was designated for assignment in order to open a 40-man roster spot.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the third IL trip of the season for Rutschman, who\u2019s also missed time due to a concussion and inflammation in his left ankle. This trio of injuries has limited him to 67 games on the season, but the switch-hitting All-Star has been productive when healthy. Rutschman is batting .251\/.331\/.433 with eight homers, 19 doubles and a triple in 284 turns at the plate. He hasn\u2019t bounced all the way back to the form he showed in his first two major league seasons (.268\/.369\/.439) but has been a far sight better than he was in 2024-25, when he hit just .240\/.314\/.382 in 1003 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

The O\u2019s haven\u2019t given a definitive timetable on Rutschman\u2019s return. While he\u2019s on the shelf, Samuel Basallo seems likely to get the lion\u2019s share of playing time behind the dish. Either Tromp or Sam Huff, also on Baltimore\u2019s active roster, can also mix in. They\u2019ll proceed with three catchers for the time being.<\/p>\n

Tromp, 31, has ping-ponged between the Orioles and Braves on several occasions over the past two seasons. He\u2019s slashed .250\/.241\/.286 in 30 MLB plate appearances this season and carries a career .225\/.232\/.375 slash in 208 trips to the batter\u2019s box at the big league level. Tromp\u2019s aggressive, free-swinging approach has left him with a staggeringly low 1.4% walk rate; he\u2019s drawn a base on balls only three times in 80 major league games. That allergic-to-walks approach is always going to limit his offensive production, but he does have a bit of pop in his right-handed swing.<\/p>\n

Martin, 30, exercised an upward mobility clause in his minor league contract with the Royals last week, which prompted Kansas City to trade him to Baltimore. Any player who exercises an upward clause must be made available to all 29 other clubs. If a new team is willing to add him to its 40-man roster, the current team must either select him to its own 40-man roster or send him to the team that\u2019s willing to do so. Kansas City chose to send Martin to Baltimore rather than select his contract.<\/p>\n

Martin didn\u2019t appear in a major league game during his short time on the Orioles\u2019 40-man roster. He\u2019s also yet to appear in a Triple-A game with them. In 255 plate appearances with the Royals\u2019 top affiliate in Omaha, the former 25th-round pick hit .284\/.414\/.441 with eight homers and a 33-for-40 showing on the basepaths. Baltimore will now have a week to trade Martin (again), place him on outright waivers or release him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles on Monday placed catcher Adley Rutschman on the 10-day injured list due to inflammation in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10780,212039,330534,99],"class_list":["post-774813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adley-rutschman","tag-chadwick-tromp","tag-rudy-martin-jr","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774813","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=774813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}