The Orioles are in settlement on a minor league cope with free agent righty Enoli Paredes, stories Ari Alexander of 7News. He’ll be in main league camp as non-roster invitee subsequent spring.
Paredes, who turned 30 in September, isn’t any stranger to Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias. He initially signed with the Astros as an novice again in 2016, when Elias was the scouting director in Houston. Elias had already jumped to Baltimore by the point Paredes had emerged as one among Houston’s extra notable pitching prospects after which made his subsequent MLB debut, nevertheless.
In elements of 4 main league seasons between the Astros, Brewers and Cubs, Paredes has totaled 54 innings with a tidy 3.00 ERA however way more regarding charge stats. He’s fanned a barely below-average 21.7% of his opponents however walked a ghastly 16.8% of the hitters he’s confronted within the majors. Paredes retains the ball on the bottom at a strong clip, has averaged higher than 95 mph on his four-seamer and has completed a pleasant job avoiding onerous contact, however the lack of command is a obvious flaw.
In 2025, Paredes spent the season with Atlanta’s Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett. He tossed 57 1/3 frames with a 4.40 earned run common, a robust 27.6% strikeout charge and an unpleasant 11.5% stroll charge (plus one other seven plunked batters and 4 wild pitches). Paredes posted sub-3.00 ERAs in Triple-A in each 2024 and 2022, however he’s persistently logged sky-high stroll charges in each Triple-A and MLB.
The O’s have loads of uncertainty of their bullpen after Felix Bautista underwent shoulder surgical procedure that’ll preserve him out for all of 2026. They additional thinned out their aid corps on the July commerce deadline, delivery out Seranthony Dominguez, Gregory Soto, Bryan Baker and Andrew Kittredge — although they’ve since reacquired Kittredge from the Cubs. Dominguez and Soto have been free brokers anyhow, however Baker was below membership management via 2028. Yennier Cano’s uneven season and poor cumulative outcomes this yr make it onerous to depend on him heading into ’26 as nicely.
Kittredge, Cano, Keegan Akin and Albert Suarez are the one relievers on Baltimore’s roster with even two years of huge league service. Given the dearth of outlined choices within the late innings, the Orioles will likely be lively in bringing in bullpen assist — each within the type of established arms and in addition within the type of low-cost depth grabs like at the moment’s Paredes deal.
