BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) \u2014 The Baltimore Orioles have swung an early season trade to add a left-handed reliever.<\/p>\n
The team announced it has acquired pitcher Nick Raquet <\/a>from the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for minor league outfielder Brayden Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n Raquet, 30, has only pitched two innings at the Major League level, both coming last season with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n He posted a miniscule .77 ERA over 35 innings with the Cardinals’ Double-A affiliate in 2025, but struggled to a 5.19 ERA over 17.1 innings in Triple-A.<\/p>\n Raquet was off to a better start in Triple-A this season, with one run allowed over three innings pitched.<\/p>\n Baltimore will add him to its Major League roster.<\/p>\n In exchange, the Orioles will send the Cardinals an outfielder in Smith, who was a 13th round draft pick for Baltimore last year.<\/p>\n Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n Smith, 22, has only hit .190 over 17 career minor league games, including only one game so far in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE, MD (WBFF) \u2014 The Baltimore Orioles have swung an early season trade to add a left-handed reliever.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-668772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116364556939752599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668772","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=668772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}