The Orioles announced a series of roster moves tonight that were anticipated for weeks.<\/p>\n
The team declined the $20 option on outfielder Luis Robert Jr.\u2019s contract, exercising the $2 million buyout and sending him into free agency.<\/p>\n
Infielder Jos\u00e9 Barrero and pitcher Albert Su\u00e1rez cleared waivers and elected free agency instead of accepting an outright assignment to Triple-A Norfolk.<\/p>\n
Reliever Colin Selby, who missed the entire 2026 season due to right shoulder inflammation that required surgery, cleared outright waivers and was reinstated from the 60-day injured list and assigned to Norfolk.<\/p>\n
Reliever Codi Heuer cleared waivers and accepted his outright assignment to Norfolk.<\/p>\n
The 40-man roster is down to 33 players.<\/p>\n
Robert appeared in three games after arriving from the Mets on an Aug. 31 waiver claim. He went 2-for-11 with a double and home run before injuring his left hamstring.<\/p>\n
The team remains in the market for an outfielder, preferably a right-handed hitter who can play center, but $20 million wasn\u2019t feasible for Robert.<\/p>\n
Barrero appeared in two games with the Orioles in the final week of the season and was 1-for-6 with three strikeouts. He hit 23 home runs in 124 games with Norfolk but also posted a .202 average and .705 OPS. He struck out 140 times.<\/p>\n
Su\u00e1rez was non-tendered last offseason, signed a minor league deal with the Orioles and appeared in 28 games while posting a 3.86 ERA. He was designated for assignment five times and left the organization again today.<\/p>\n
Never count him out.<\/p>\n
Heuer was a non-tender candidate projected by MLBTradeRumors.com to receive $1.1 million in arbitration. The Orioles purchased his contract from the Brewers on Aug. 3, but he didn\u2019t pitch for them.<\/p>\n
More activity is coming Monday with players on the 60-day injured list added to the 40-man roster and teams required to make decisions on exercising options. It\u2019s also the deadline to make qualifying offers to eligible players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles announced a series of roster moves tonight that were anticipated for weeks. The team declined the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[86978,831,377744,37403,363,48262,148834,99],"class_list":["post-902095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-albert-suarez","tag-featured","tag-jose-barrero","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-roch-kubatko","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902095","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=902095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}