The Baltimore Orioles haven’t been the flashiest team of the Major League Baseball offseason so far, but they’ve been busy.

Outside of signing closer Ryan Helsley, the Orioles have been making lots of moves at the margins, namely minor-league signings and waiver claims. Last week, they picked up two new players off waivers in catcher Drew Romo and outfielder Will Robertson, from the Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates, respectively.

Those claims were made on Friday, but the Orioles did not announce them publicly until the next day. And when they did, it turned out that they had also severed ties with a player they’d claimed off waivers only four months prior.

According to the official transactions log and the Orioles’ social media announcement, Baltimore designated first baseman/outfielder Ryan Noda for assignment. The 29-year-old spent much of his time in Triple-A after being claimed off waivers from the Chicago White Sox in August, and went 2-for-13 without an extra-base hit in his seven games for the Orioles as a major leaguer.

It was a wild year for Noda, who was a fairly promising rookie for the Oakland Athletics in 2023. He regressed sharply last year, prompting the A’s to waive him last offseason, when he was claimed by the Los Angeles Angels.

After starting the year in Triple-A with Los Angeles, Noda was traded to the Boston Red Sox, waived, claimed by the White Sox, waived again, then finished the season in Baltimore. After all that chaos, it was a small wonder that Noda wasn’t able to elect free agency, because for all the times he was exposed to waivers, he was never outrighted off a team’s 40-man roster.

That could happen this time around if Noda passes through waivers unclaimed, and there would be no reason for the Orioles not to keep him around if he wasn’t hogging a 40-man roster spot.

In his brief major league career, Noda has played over 95% of his innings at first base as opposed to the outfield, but he played all five of his games on defense with the Orioles in right field. He’s not fleet of foot, with 15th-percentile sprint speed, so it’s unlikely any team considers him as a full-time defensive option in the outfield.

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