CHICAGO \u2014 The Baltimore Orioles acquired left-hander Nick Raquet in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The addition of Raquet puts another lefty in the bullpen for first-year manager Craig Albernaz. The 30-year-old Raquet was designated for assignment by the Cardinals on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Orioles also transferred right-hander Zach Eflin to the 60-day injured list. Right-hander Brandon Young was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk.<\/p>\n
Eflin, who turns 32 on Wednesday, is sidelined with right elbow discomfort.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s getting a second opinion today,\u201d Albernaz said before Tuesday’s game at the Chicago White Sox. \u201cAnd also, the way it’s trending, 60-day makes a ton of sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old Young pitched five scoreless innings in Monday’s 2-1 win over the White Sox. He was brought up from Norfolk to fill in for Eflin after Cade Povich, Baltimore\u2019s first option for the start, worked 5 2\/3 innings in long relief Sunday at Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
\u201cB.Y. stepping up, giving us five innings of shutout baseball was exactly what we needed,\u201d Albernaz said. \u201cIt just speaks to our starting pitching depth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Orioles sent minor league second baseman Brayden Smith to the Cardinals for Raquet, a third-round pick in the 2017 amateur draft.<\/p>\n
Raquet made his major league debut last year, tossing two scoreless innings for the Cardinals in September. He was 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA in two relief appearances for Triple-A Peoria this season, last pitching on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can never have enough left-handed pitching, especially relievers,\u201d Albernaz said. \u201cYou love the strike-throwing ability he has shown. … So the biggest thing for us right now is to get him acclimated. He hasn’t thrown in a little bit. So we want to make sure that he gets outside, plays catch and touches the mound and we’ll kind of go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 The Baltimore Orioles acquired left-hander Nick Raquet in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[47,5,160,4,673,67,4311,4310,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-669004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cardinals","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-st-louis","13":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","14":"tag-stlouis","15":"tag-stlouiscardinals","16":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116365197998388949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669004","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=669004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}