{"id":669072,"date":"2026-04-07T20:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:45","slug":"orioles-acquire-left-hander-nick-raquet-in-trade-with-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669072\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles acquire left-hander Nick Raquet in trade with Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/baltimore-orioles\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"baltimore-orioles\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> acquired left-hander Nick Raquet in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Eflin, who turns 32 on Wednesday,\u00a0is sidelined\u00a0with right elbow discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s getting a second opinion today,\u201d Albernaz said before Tuesday&#8217;s game at the Chicago White Sox. \u201cAnd also, the way it&#8217;s trending, 60-day makes a ton of sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Young pitched five scoreless innings in\u00a0Monday&#8217;s 2-1 win\u00a0over 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<p>\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<p>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<p>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<p>\u201cYou can never have enough left-handed pitching, especially relievers,\u201d Albernaz said. \u201cYou love the strike-throwing ability he has shown. &#8230; So the biggest thing for us right now is to get him acclimated. He hasn&#8217;t thrown in a little bit. So we want to make sure that he gets outside, plays catch and touches the mound and we&#8217;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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,160,4,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-669072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cardinals","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116365429762863184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669072","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=669072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}