The Orioles and Brewers have introduced a three-player commerce that can see the O’s land right-handers Thyago Vieira and Aneuris Rodriguez. Milwaukee will obtain minor league righty Garrett Stallings in return.
Vieira is the one member of the trio with any Main League expertise, because the Sao Paulo native has a 6.18 ERA over 51 profession innings within the Present. He appeared in elements of the 2017-19 seasons with the Mariners and White Sox earlier than spending the subsequent three seasons in Japan, after which returning to North American baseball through a minors take care of the Brewers within the 2022-23 offseason.
After making two appearances with Milwaukee’s large league roster final yr, accidents opened up extra alternative for Vieira this season, although he didn’t precisely capitalize. The fitting-hander posted a 5.64 ERA over 22 1/3 innings for the Crew, permitting six house runs and strolling 12.3% of batters. Regardless of an enormous fastball with common high-90s velocity, Vieira has but to translate that warmth into high-level strikeout quantity, as he whiffed an honest however unspectacular 23.6% of batters confronted this season.
Between that velocity and stable numbers in NPB and with the Brewers’ Triple-A affiliate in 2023, it isn’t arduous to see why the Orioles may need an curiosity in seeing if Vieira may nonetheless be a late bloomer at age 31. A traditional case of a tough thrower with management points, Vieira’s potential is clear if the O’s can determine a manner for the righty to harness his stuff. The Brewers have had a whole lot of success in serving to unheralded pitchers unlock their skill lately, although the workforce opted to maneuver on by designating Vieira for project earlier this week.
Rodriguez is extra of a longer-term lottery ticket of a prospect, because the righty continues to be just a few weeks away from his twentieth birthday. His professional expertise has been restricted to 2 seasons within the Dominican Summer season League and a few rookie ball motion this yr, with a cumulative 3.67 ERA over 83 1/3 complete innings.
Stallings was a fifth-round decide for the Angels within the 2019 draft, and he got here to Baltimore’s group as a part of the return within the December 2020 commerce that despatched Jose Iglesias to Los Angeles. Stallings has a 5.41 ERA, 23.1% strikeout fee, and 6.48% stroll fee over 379 1/3 profession minor league innings. That features a 5.52 ERA in 101 innings of Triple-A piece, as he has pitched as each as a starter and a reliever at Baltimore’s high affiliate in every of the final two seasons.
