{"id":94644,"date":"2025-01-27T15:42:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=94644"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:42:53","slug":"dylan-carlson-orioles-one-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/01\/27\/dylan-carlson-orioles-one-year-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Make Move to Strengthen Outfield with One-Year Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles have announced the signing of outfielder Dylan Carlson to a one-year contract. Carlson will earn $975,000 with the potential for a $25,000 bonus if he reaches 200 plate appearances, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post. He earned $2.35 million in arbitration a year ago. To make room for Carlson, infielder Jacob Amaya has been designated for assignment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have agreed to terms with OF Dylan Carlson on a one-year contract for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Birdland, Dylan! <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PreoMVtbmp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PreoMVtbmp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Orioles\/status\/1883969618278244595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Carlson, former top prospect, batted .209\/.287\/.288 with three home runs, 25 RBI and two stolen bases in 96 games between the St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Rays in 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Orioles Agree to Terms with Dylan Carlson<\/h2>\n<p>Carlson began the 2024 season on the 10-day injured list, recovering from an ACL joint sprain, before making his debut on May 5. Despite getting back on the field, he struggled with a .198 average in 121 at-bats. In a move before the trade deadline, Carlson was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/30\/cardinals-trade-dylan-carlson-rays\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">dealt<\/a> to the Rays. Unfortunately, the change in scenery didn&#8217;t spark much improvement, as he posted a .219 batting average with a concerning 28.3% strikeout rate across 127 plate appearances. Ultimately, Carlson was non-tendered by the Rays and became a free agent in November.<\/p>\n<p>A switch-hitter, Carlson has been far more successful against left-handed pitchers, slashing .286\/.361\/.431 in his career compared to just .219\/.300\/.355 against righties. At only 26 years old, he could provide valuable depth for the Orioles as a short-side platoon bat. Carlson will look to rebound in 2025 after a challenging 2024 season.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-shrink-0 flex flex-col relative items-end\">\n<div class=\"pt-0\">\n<div class=\"gizmo-bot-avatar flex h-8 w-8 items-center justify-center overflow-hidden rounded-full\">\n<div class=\"relative p-1 rounded-sm flex items-center justify-center bg-token-main-surface-primary text-token-text-primary h-8 w-8\">Over five seasons in the majors, split between the St. Louis Cardinals and Tampa Bay Rays, Carlson has compiled a .237\/.317\/.376 slash line with 37 home runs, 175 RBIs, and 13 stolen bases in 484 games.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Main Photo: \u00a9 Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles have announced the signing of outfielder Dylan Carlson to a one-year contract. Carlson will earn $975,000 with the potential for a $25,000 bonus if he reaches 200 plate appearances, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post. He earned $2.35 million in arbitration a year ago. To make room for Carlson, infielder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3686,"featured_media":94646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[3338],"class_list":["post-94644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","category-news","tag-dylan-carlson"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644","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\/3686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94647,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94644\/revisions\/94647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}