{"id":67411,"date":"2024-02-28T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=67411"},"modified":"2024-02-28T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:37:55","slug":"baltimore-orioles-julio-teheran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/28\/baltimore-orioles-julio-teheran\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Sign Julio Teher\u00e1n to Minor League Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Baltimore Orioles pitching staff just got a little deeper with the signing of veteran right-hander Julio Teher\u00e1n<\/a>. According to Jon Heyman<\/a>, Teher\u00e1n and the Orioles are in agreement on a minor league contract with an invitation to Spring Training. Teher\u00e1n will receive $2 million if he reaches the big league roster and his contract includes a $100,000 signing bonus and an opt-out clause.<\/span><\/p>\n

With both Kyle Bradish<\/a> and John Means<\/a> starting the season on the injured list<\/a>, general manager Mike Elias made it clear that he was still in the market for pitching depth<\/a>. On Tuesday, Elias made his move by signing Julio Teher\u00e1n to a minor league contract.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orioles, Julio Teher\u00e1n Agree to Minor League Deal<\/h2>\n

Teher\u00e1n has been a starter for most of his career and could provide Baltimore with a spot start or long relief. Teher\u00e1n, who turned 33 last month, is a two-time All-Star with 12 years of major league service time. He spent nine years with the Atlanta Braves where he was a two-time All-Star and a Rookie of the Year candidate in 2013. After leaving the Braves in 2019, Teher\u00e1n has bounced around the major leagues and was with the Brewers last season.<\/span><\/p>\n

He started 11 of 14 outings for the Milwaukee Brewers last season posting a 4.40 ERA over 71.2 innings. Teher\u00e1n showed excellent command in Milwaukee keeping his walks under the 5% threshold. He isn\u2019t a high strikeout pitcher with a 17.4% strikeout ratio last season and gets most of his outs from groundballs. Teher\u00e1n struggled with the Angels in the shortened 2020 season pitching to a 10.05 ERA over 10 games. Injuries limited the right-hander to one start with Detroit in 2021 and spent the 2022 season in independent leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teher\u00e1n doesn\u2019t throw particularly hard at this stage of his career but has found success in his secondary pitches. He owns a 3.83 ERA and a 1.219 WHIP over 254 career games. While Tyler Wells<\/a> and Cole Irvin<\/a> are expected to fill the two openings in the rotation, Teher\u00e1n brings much-needed depth to the Baltimore pitching staff.<\/span><\/p>\n

Main Photo: \u00a9 Michael McLoone-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Baltimore Orioles pitching staff just got a little deeper with the signing of veteran right-hander Julio Teher\u00e1n. According to Jon Heyman, Teher\u00e1n and the Orioles are in agreement on a minor league contract with an invitation to Spring Training. Teher\u00e1n will receive $2 million if he reaches the big league roster and his contract […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":67418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,1071],"tags":[48,2924,85,2544,3251,156,507,5554],"class_list":["post-67411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-featured","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-cole-irvin","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-john-means","tag-kyle-bradish","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-tyler-wells"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}