Baltimore Orioles followers are having a reasonably superb week. On Tuesday, they discovered they’re getting a brand new proprietor as John Angelos lastly offered the crew. On Thursday, they acquired a former Cy Younger winner, touchdown Corbin Burnes in a blockbuster commerce with the Milwaukee Brewers.
The Orioles are sending shortstop Joey Ortiz and left-handed pitcher D.L. Corridor to Milwaukee in alternate for Burnes.
For the Orioles, it’s a fully large transfer that ought to make them not solely a prime contender within the American League East, but additionally in the complete American League for a possible journey to the World Sequence. They’re coming off a 101-win season and AL East title in 2023, and have an amazing younger core led by catcher Adley Rutschman. The one factor they had been missing was a real front-line beginning pitcher, and now they’ve one in Burnes.
Each Ortiz and Corridor are already 25 years previous however have virtually no big-league expertise. Ortiz was a top-100 prospect in baseball getting into the 2023 season and performed in 15 main league video games. Corridor was a equally rated prospect and ended up showing in 18 video games out of the bullpen.
It’s most likely quite a bit tougher for Brewers followers to simply accept this transfer.
They weren’t solely within the playoffs a yr in the past, but additionally play in a Nationwide League Central division that is still fully broad open with no single dominant crew anyplace within the subject. Now they traded away certainly one of their prime pitchers for 2 gamers which are whole wild playing cards and should not ever come near matching the worth that Burnes has.
Burnes gained the 2021 NL Cy Younger and posted a 3.39 ERA in 32 begins in the course of the 2023 season. He has completed within the top-eight in Cy Younger voting in every of the previous 4 years
