{"id":537655,"date":"2026-01-25T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/537655\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:27:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:27:51","slug":"orioles-claim-weston-wilson-dfa-jose-suarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/537655\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Claim Weston Wilson, DFA Jose Suarez"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Orioles have claimed utilityman Weston Wilson<\/a> off waivers from the Phillies and designated left-hander Jos\u00e9 Suarez<\/a> for assignment, reports<\/a> Ari Alexander<\/a> of 7 News.<\/p>\n

Wilson, 31, was designated for assignment by the Phillies last week when they re-signed J.T. Realmuto<\/a>. He\u2019s spent parts of the past three seasons in the majors with them, hitting a combined .242\/.328\/.428 with nine home runs in 245 trips to the plate. Almost all of that production came in 2023-24, however. Wilson hit just .198\/.282\/.369 in a career-high 125 plate appearances this past season but raked at a .288\/.375\/.490 clip the prior two seasons.<\/p>\n

Wilson has never hit righties much but feasted on southpaws in \u201923-\u201924 before taking a huge step back in \u201925. Even with last year\u2019s lack of production in platoon settings, he\u2019s a career .250\/.359\/.475 hitter (130 wRC+) against left-handed pitching. Wilson also owns a solid .247\/.339\/.462 output in nearly 1700 plate appearances of Triple-A work.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s played all around the diamond, but despite occasional reps in the middle infield, Wilson is primarily a corner infielder\/outfielder. He\u2019ll give the O\u2019s some righty-swinging depth at all four corner spots, but he\u2019s also out of minor league options, which significantly hinders his chances of sticking on the roster. He\u2019d need to break camp on the club or else be designated for assignment once again.<\/p>\n

The Orioles are as aggressive as any team in the sport when it comes to claiming players off waivers and then trying to pass them through waivers themselves in order to cultivate depth. Su\u00e1rez, who\u2019s being designated for assignment, is a product of that very churn. It should come as no surprise to anyone if Wilson is designated for assignment in the near future, whenever the O\u2019s make their next waiver addition or sign their next free agent. At that point, they\u2019d hope to outright him and keep him in Triple-A.<\/p>\n

Baltimore claimed Suarez just one week ago, plucking him off waivers from the Braves, who\u2019d signed him to a $900K deal to avoid arbitration. He\u2019s out of minor league options, so simply optioning him to Triple-A Norfolk was never in the cards. The O\u2019s will hope to sneak him through waivers and stash him in Triple-A as depth. Suarez has enough service time to reject an outright assignment, but doing so would mean forfeiting the $900K base salary on the big league portion of his deal (and any notable minor league split he secured as well).<\/p>\n

Injuries limited Suarez to 19 1\/3 innings this past season, but he posted a sharp 1.86 ERA in that time \u2014 albeit with a less-encouraging 16-to-10 K\/BB ratio. The 28-year-old has started 62 games and made another 44 relief appearances in a career that\u2019s seen him amass 396 innings with a 5.30 earned run average. Suarez posted disastrous numbers with the Angels in 2020, 2023\u00a0 and 2024 but was a strong swingman for them in 2021-22. During those two seasons, he logged 207 1\/3 frames with a 3.86 ERA, 21.5% strikeout rate and 7.9% walk rate.<\/p>\n

The Orioles can trade Suarez or place him on outright waivers at any point within the next five days. Waivers are a 48-hour process. His DFA will be resolved by next Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orioles have claimed utilityman Weston Wilson off waivers from the Phillies and designated left-hander Jos\u00e9 Suarez for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,157,4,15448],"class_list":["post-537655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-jose-suarez","tag-mlb","tag-weston-wilson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115956213696133983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}