{"id":81888,"date":"2024-07-30T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T00:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=81888"},"modified":"2024-07-30T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T00:47:20","slug":"orioles-gregory-soto-trade-phillies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/orioles-gregory-soto-trade-phillies\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Secure Second Phillies Reliever in Deadline Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After acquiring reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dominse01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez<\/a> from the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, the Baltimore Orioles have added lefty reliever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sotogr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gregory Soto<\/a> to their bullpen. As the trade deadline comes to an end, Baltimore added a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/26\/orioles-trade-austin-hays\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">second Phillies reliever<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to their pitching staff, acquiring the two-time All-Star<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have made the following trade: <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bw7x5Juffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/bw7x5Juffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/status\/1818424559814709758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Orioles Acquire Lefty Reliever Gregory Soto from Phillies<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soto was signed by the Detroit Tigers as an international free agent in 2012. He spent parts of four seasons as the primary closer in the Motor City. He was a two-time All-Star, recording 50 saves with a 4.13 ERA and 1.490 WHIP for Detroit before being traded to Philadelphia last year. In 43 appearances this season, the 29-year-old southpaw owns a 4.08 ERA and 1.585 WHIP over 35 \u2153 innings. Soto has been primarily used in a setup role for the Phillies and has experience working in high-leverage situations. He is expected to handle middle relief for Baltimore while giving manager <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/hydebr99.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Hyde<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the option to alternate in the ninth inning between him and righty closer <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kimbrcr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Kimbrel<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soto sports a five-pitch mix but relies mostly on his sinker (41%) and slider (38.7%). His 26.7% strikeout rate is near a career high, as is his 12.1% walk rate. The southpaw is arbitration-eligible for one more season before entering free agency in 2026. Soto will reunite with former Phillies teammates Kimbrel and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Dom\u00ednguez<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Orioles bullpen. Baltimore relievers have combined for the sixth-best ERA in the American League (3.92) and the second-best opponent average (.220).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the deal sending Gregory Soto to the Orioles, the Phillies received right-handed pitching prospects <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=johnso009set,johnso008set,johnso006set&amp;search=Seth+Johnson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seth Johnson<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=chace-000moi&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-07-30_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mois\u00e9s Chace<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/baltimore-orioles-2024-top-mlb-prospects\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baseball America<\/a>, Johnson is the Orioles&#8217; 12th-ranked prospect while Chace ranks 24th. Johnson has made 18 starts for Double-A Bowie, pitching to a 2.63 ERA. Meanwhile, Chace carries a 3.46 ERA in 17 appearances (nine starts) for High-A Aberdeen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After acquiring reliever Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez from the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, the Baltimore Orioles have added lefty reliever Gregory Soto to their bullpen. As the trade deadline comes to an end, Baltimore added a second Phillies reliever to their pitching staff, acquiring the two-time All-Star\u00a0on Tuesday.\u00a0 We have made the following trade: pic.twitter.com\/bw7x5Juffs \u2014 Baltimore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":81893,"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":[3,1071,35,23],"tags":[2527,323,2760,268,5885,5858],"class_list":["post-81888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","category-news","category-phillies","tag-brandon-hyde","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-gregory-soto","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-seranthony-dominguez","tag-seth-johnson"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81888","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=81888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}