{"id":81349,"date":"2024-07-26T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81349"},"modified":"2024-07-26T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T18:30:01","slug":"orioles-trade-austin-hays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/26\/orioles-trade-austin-hays\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Swap Veteran Outfielder for Phillies Right-Hander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the trade between two teams that could be facing one another in the World Series, the Orioles have acquired reliever Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez from the Phillies. With the trade deadline quickly approaching, the Orioles made their first big move, adding a much-needed arm to their bullpen. Baltimore announced a trade, sending veteran outfielder <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/haysau01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Austin Hays<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to Philadelphia in exchange for reliever <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dominse01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and outfielder <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/pachecr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristian Pache<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To make room on the 40-man roster, the Orioles have designated right-hander <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=stoudt000lev\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Levi Stoudt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have made the following trade: <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RCYU2TOJT9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RCYU2TOJT9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/status\/1816873727109239140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 26, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Orioles Acquire Veteran Reliever In Trade With Phillies<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One year removed from his first All-Star nod, Hays has slashed .255\/.316\/.395 with a 106 OPS+ in 63 games for Baltimore this season. Despite somewhat of a down year, the 29-year-old outfielder has continued to dominate left-handed pitching, slashing .328\/.394\/.500. His .394 on-base percentage ranks 31st among the 212 hitters who have faced at least 70 lefties this season. Drafted by the Orioles in 2016, Hays spent the past three seasons as Baltimore&#8217;s primary left fielder. However, with the emergence of lefty-hitting outfielders <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cowseco01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Colton Cowser<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kjershe01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heston Kjerstad<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Hays has shifted to a platoon role. Austin Hays will give the Phillies a more <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/19\/trade-deadline-outfield-phillies\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">impactful right-handed bat<\/a> in their outfield mix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similarly, the newly acquired Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez is also experiencing a down year, though he boasts a significantly stronger track record. Dom\u00ednguez has appeared in 230 games for Philadelphia, sporting a 3.55 career ERA, 1.19 WHIP, and 253 strikeouts. The 29-year-old righty is a hard-throwing middle reliever with high-leverage experience and has sometimes operated as the Phillies\u00a0closer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for Pache, the 25-year-old outfielder has made 50 appearances for the Phillies this year, batting just .202\/.288\/.269. Given the plethora of left-hitting hitting outfielders in Baltimore&#8217;s system, the right-hitting Pache will likely serve as a depth piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hays and Dom\u00ednguez are under club control through 2025, with Hays under another year of arbitration and Dom\u00ednguez carrying a $500,000 club option.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Reggie Hildred-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the trade between two teams that could be facing one another in the World Series, the Orioles have acquired reliever Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez from the Phillies. With the trade deadline quickly approaching, the Orioles made their first big move, adding a much-needed arm to their bullpen. Baltimore announced a trade, sending veteran outfielder Austin Hays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":81356,"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],"tags":[3368,28657,1937,3640,69,268,5885,49],"class_list":["post-81349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","tag-austin-hays","tag-colton-cowser","tag-cristian-pache","tag-heston-kjerstad","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-seranthony-dominguez","tag-trade-deadline"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81349","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=81349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}