The Pirates will get one or two players in return in negotiations that are ongong.
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Sidelined since July 6 due to tendinitis in his right foot, Walker is 4-7 with a 3.66 ERA with 80 strikeouts and 18 walks in 16 starts. He maintained a 5.19 ERA with seven strikeouts and four walks in eight relief appearances with Toronto this season.
The Mariners acquired ambidextrous pitcher Pat Venditte from Toronto on Saturday morning.
It’s the second trade the Blue Jays have made with Seattle in as many weeks.
A 20th-round draft pick of the New York Yankees in 2008, Venditte wears a custom-made six-finger glove that he uses to pitch both right- and left-handed.
A home run by Sean Rodriguez in the ninth inning helped the Pirates secure a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday. He seemed to be one of Ray Searage’s success stories past year, as his velocity jumped to the upper-90s – with an average fastball velocity of 97.8 miles per hour in 2015, he was the hardest-throwing reliever in the big leagues apart from Aroldis Chapman – and he improved his command enough to post an ERA of 3.62 and xFIP of 3.77.
The pitcher has been traded to the Seattle Mariners. They have yet to announce a corresponding 25-man roster move to replace Caminero.
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Parker, 31, pitched one scoreless inning Thursday against Boston in his only appearance since his promotion earlier that day from Triple-A Tacoma, where he was 1-2 with 19 saves and a 2.72 ERA in 38 games. He was signed by the Marlins as a non-drafted free agent out of the Dominican Republic in 2005. But he is out of minor league options so he will join the team, likely by Monday.
