The Orioles have optioned infielder Pat Valaika to the alternate site at Bowie. Valaika has played in four games and is hitting 1-for-9 (.111).
No corresponding move was announced, but the club is expected to activate outfielder DJ Stewart for Saturday’s game against the Red Sox.
Valaika, who played in 52 games last season, hitting .277 with 8 home runs and 16 RBIs, has started one game at first and one at second base this season.
Stewart has been on the 10-day injured list because a strained left hamstring. He hasn’t played since March 5th when he injured the hamstring in a Grapefruit League game in Dunedin, Florida.
The Orioles put outfielder Austin Hayes on the 10-day injured list this week after he strained his right hamstring in last Sunday’s win over the Red Sox.
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Take nothing from nothing leaves... nothing... just saying...
Well at least we’re going to replace him with a versatile guy like DJ Stewart.
Anyone but Stevie
Love to see Stewart playing infield in his versatility...
why not Uranus. he seems to strike out often. at leastValaliaka could play outfield
Uranus??? Why not Neptune or Saturn. Sorry I couldn’t help it.
Uranus is from Mexican league Elias afraid of retribution from the cartel . Sorry I couldn’t help
I would guess Boog would have an out of this world comment for this spellcheck nightmare...go O’s...
Probably because Urias can play short and Valaika cannot. The Orioles have several players who can the OF, albeit poorly.
Valaika played over 20 games at SS just last yr for the O’s...go O’s...
Send the most versatile player on the team down. That makes sense. Why keep Stewart he has shown anything? Send fry down or dfa Leblanc and why keep five outfielders with McKenna?
Exactly, he plays the infield and outfield and can hit instead they keep Urias. Can someone explain this move please
Yeah coming off the DL can’t you do a minor league rehab without triggering an option Year? I guess that’s assuming the “Bowie complex” qualifies as a minor league rehab locale?
33rd, normally you have 20 days, 30 days for a pitcher, on a rehab assignment without triggering an option. No
games until May 4, so no need for an official rehab.
Why keep Elias' mancrush Rio Ruiz? Elias gets a better third baseman so he moves his boy to 2nd base ???
Saw that the O's have fired their PA announcer, Ryan Wagner. According to one report, the firing is related to his twitter comments. Just took a quick look at his twitter page, and didn't see anything that seemed particularly controversial. Unless there are some twitter posts that Wagner deleted, not sure what this about. Rich, or anyone, have any further info?
Probably stuff he posted when he was in HS...go O’s...
Birdman, I looked at his comments yesterday and didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.
Thanks, Rich. I agree. Unless he deleted something offensive, seems like there must be some other issue.
There can be only one answer, he said something, anything, that some nameless, faceless person took offense at. It’s the society we live in now.
How about the other issue being money? Let's see if the replacement comes cheaper. Or maybe the replacement will be for diversity's sake. Or both. It's always the little people who take the hits for the big people's grand schemes.
Has either Elias or Hyde said anything about how Hays is doing? I know he’s on 10 day IL but that means nothing. Also, if they think Stewart will come in and be an upgrade from Mountcastle defensively, well, I’m sure I’m not the only one that remembers him almost getting a concussion because of the pop fly he took off his head in 2019. To this day I can still see Richie Martin doing his best not to laugh at him after that play.
Hey what happened here? Who called off The Lord of the Flies treatment towards Mountcastle? Severino and Mountcastle now...Orioles are 4-3, that projects to 92 wins, but we must denigrate our players here. Oy!
As has been said ad nauseum here, 7 games, small sample size.
Have no problem with Mountcastle, severino a different story....go O’s...
Mounty plays a decent 1st Base and shows great potential at the plate. He's a major leaguer for sure (at least in this organization currently). Just not an outfielder.
To note his OF deficiencies isn't picking on him needlessly. From my perspective it's more an indictment on the Orioles leadership anyway. Hell bent on trying to turn an IFer into an OFer
Well, I guess I'll jump in with my two cents worth since that is all it's worth.. With a team full of minor league infielders, why would you get rid of, easily, the best hitter in the group? It looks like my fellow posters that intimated "Tanking" weren't far off base.
:)...go O’s...
Just what we need - another guy who has no position. Why is this guy still on the roster?