O's Acquire Yamaico Navarro From Pittsburgh

[Jordan Tuwiner]

O's Acquire Yamaico Navarro From Pittsburgh In Exchange For Jhondaniel Medina:

The Orioles today announced that they acquired INF YAMAICO NAVARRO from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for minor league RHP JHONDANIEL MEDINA.

Navarro, 25, batted .279/.366/.491 with nine home runs and 35 RBI in 66 games with Triple-A Indianapolis and .160/.232/.220 with one home run and four RBI in 29 games for the Pirates last season. He is a career .279/.350/.437 hitter in 536 games over seven minor league seasons.

Medina, 19, went 1-3 with a 4.14 ERA (50.0IP, 23ER) in 11 games with Gulf Coast (10 games) and Class-A Aberdeen (one game) last season.

[Jordan Tuwiner]

I liked Medina when I saw him in the GCL.

See his profile here: http://orioles-nation.com/players/jhondaniel-medina/

[Seafordeagles]

I liked Medina when I saw him in the GCL.

See his profile here: http://orioles-nation.com/players/jhondaniel-medina/

Now I'm confused. It's like they gave up 2 players (Pomeranz DFA'd). Pomeranz had great numbers last year.

[Old Sneakers]

I'm not so confused as asking myself if there is some depth issue at Bowie or Norfolk. Or, is this making room in the lower minors as well? This is not a major acquisition or filling a need to my eyes.

[osforlife]

I don't like the fact we DFA'd Pomeranz. He is almost surely to get picked up. Defintily would rather have Pomeranz over Valencia, Navarro, Esposito. Navarro has pretty good numbers in the minors, I doubt the Piartes see anything in him(contributing in the major leagues) if they just traded him for a rookie ball pitcher.
****Just read that Pomeranz is a free agent from Roch Kubatko. If this is true, we should re-sign him.

[ofahn]

I don't like the fact we DFA'd Pomeranz.

That's a head scratcher for me too. I saw him as a ML ready RH reliever that would be one phone call away at AAA.

[osforlife]

That's a head scratcher for me too. I saw him as a ML ready RH reliever that would be one phone call away at AAA.

This explains it. http://www.masnsports.com/school_of_roc ... rgery.html

[ofahn]

This is explains it. http://www.masnsports.com/school_of_roc ... rgery.html

Yeah, I just read that. Sad story.