{"id":77286,"date":"2024-06-19T19:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=77286"},"modified":"2024-06-19T19:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T23:26:32","slug":"orioles-call-up-nick-maton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/19\/orioles-call-up-nick-maton\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Call Up Newly Signed Utility Infielder from Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With third baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/westbjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan Westburg<\/a> considered day-to-day, the Baltimore Orioles called up infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/matonni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Maton<\/a> and optioned outfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stoweky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Stowers<\/a> to Triple-A Norfolk.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Westburg<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> left Tuesday\u2019s loss against the New York Yankees after colliding with outfielder <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=sotoju01,soto--004jua&amp;search=Juan+Soto&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He was replaced by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/uriasra01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the second inning.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have made the following roster moves: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6j6CQFDECH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6j6CQFDECH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/status\/1803474305931469139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;His hip&#8217;s pretty sore,&#8221; Orioles manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/hydebr99.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Hyde<\/a> said after the game. &#8220;Right now, he&#8217;s day-to-day with &#8212; I think it&#8217;s like a hip contusion, but we&#8217;ll see how he feels [Wednesday].&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With Westburg unavailable, the Orioles called utilityman <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nick Maton<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> up from Triple-A Norfolk to serve as an extra infielder. In 41 games with Norfolk, Maton is batting .294\/.387\/.483 with seven homers, 28 RBI, and an .870 OPS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stowers<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was optioned to Triple-A to make room for Maton on the Orioles\u2019 26-man active roster. He slashed .286\/.278\/.486 with a home run and nine RBI in 17 games with the Orioles. He went 3-for-17 in June and started only four times, with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cowseco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colton Cowser<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> drawing the bulk of the left-handed at-bats.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Orioles Have Called Up Infielder Nick Maton<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nick Maton was acquired by the Orioles this offseason in a trade with the Detroit Tigers for cash considerations. Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in 2017, Maton spent two seasons with them before being traded to Detroit last season. With 180 career games in the majors, the 27-year-old brings slightly more experience against big-league pitchers to the Orioles. Primarily an infielder, Maton has the defensive versatility to play both infield and outfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since Westburg wasn\u2019t placed on the injured list, Baltimore couldn\u2019t recall <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/norbyco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connor Norby<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> since the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/03\/orioles-prospect-connor-norby-prospect\/\" target=\"_self\">Orioles optioned him<\/a> on June 11th. Norby would have to stay down for a minimum of 10 days unless he was replacing an injured player. He was pulled from the Norfolk Tides game on Tuesday shortly after Westburg\u2019s collision and could be placed on the 24-hour taxi squad if the Orioles want him close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even if Westburg is moved to the injured list, Ur\u00edas would likely be ahead of Maton for an everyday role in the Orioles infield. Ur\u00edas, who is 6-for-13 against Yankees ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/colege01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerrit Cole<\/a>, draws the start at third base on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With third baseman Jordan Westburg considered day-to-day, the Baltimore Orioles called up infielder Nick Maton and optioned outfielder Kyle Stowers to Triple-A Norfolk.\u00a0Westburg left Tuesday\u2019s loss against the New York Yankees after colliding with outfielder Juan Soto. He was replaced by Ram\u00f3n Ur\u00edas in the second inning. We have made the following roster moves: pic.twitter.com\/6j6CQFDECH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":77304,"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":[3,1071,35],"tags":[28533,85,611,3716,41,6284,268,5835],"class_list":["post-77286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","category-news","tag-connor-norby","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-jordan-westburg","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nick-maton","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-ramon-urias"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286","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=77286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}