The Milwaukee Brewers have traded outfielder Gerardo Parra to the Baltimore Orioles.
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Parra had been seeing regular action because of his hot bat, so the Brewers now are missing two outfielders who have to be replaced on the roster.
The newly acquired outfielder could get his first opportunity to play for the Orioles and attempt to extend his 14-game hit streak Saturday night against the Detroit Tigers.
Parra, 28, is knocking.328/.369/.517 right now by using nine home or office operates, 31 RBI and nine robbed channels.
Gerardo Parra is a valuable player and a great acquisition for the Orioles, who needed outfield improvement. Because he’s been traded during the season preceding free agency, the Orioles cannot make a qualifying offer to him and thus will not receive Draft-pick compensation if he signs with another team during the offseason. In 19 games this season he is 5-6 with a 2.84 ERA with Triple-A Norfolk.
Baltimore hasn’t had a natural lead-off hitter the past few years, even though right fielder Nick Markakis did pretty well there for most of the final two-and-a-half years he was with the Orioles. Parmelee appeared in 32 games (97 at bats), batting. Showalter said he sees Givens staying with the team for the “foreseeable future”. The Orioles also expressed interest in Ben Rever from the Phillies. In 101 1/3 innings, he allowed 91 hits and 33 walks with 81 strikeouts, and four homers allowed. “So now we’re going to give them an opportunity”.
“He was very instrumental in our success last year, and it’s a real reminder about how things snowball mentally and emotionally”, Showalter said. He just never really got going from spring training on.
Duquette said he had a hard time letting Norris go.
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All of these moves help address the main problem that the Orioles have had this year: inconsistent corner outfield production. “It just wasn’t going to happen here”.
