Trade deadline acquisitions Eloy Jiménez, Trevor Rogers, Austin Slater and Livan Soto are set to join the Baltimore Orioles, bumping Heston Kjerstad, Cristian Pache and others off the roster.
from the Miami Marlins and infielder Livan Soto and outfielder Austin Slater from the Cincinnati Reds on deadline day alone. They previously addedBaltimore shipped out a handful of players in order to reel in all that talent, but they still had quite the roster crunch on their hands entering Thursday's series opener against the Cleveland Guardians.
Baltimore then optioned outfielder Heston Kjerstad and left-handed pitcher Keegan Akin to Triple-A Norfolk. Kjerstad, however, was the No. 4 prospect in Baltimore's farm system and the No. 21 prospect in baseball when he last got promoted. And while he hit .143 with a .437 OPS in his first big league stint earlier this season, he was batting .291 with an .882 OPS since rejoining the roster on June 24.
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