In a move that probably won’t make to many waves across baseball, the Baltimore Orioles traded cash considerations yesterday to the LA Angels for outfielder Efren Navarro. Navarro is a corner outfielder who’s spent parts of four seasons with Los Angeles. He’s a career .246 hitter, and he hit .253 over 54 games at the big league level last year.
Navarro has similar numbers to LJ Hoes, who the Orioles unfortunately had to designate for assignment in order to make room on the 40-man roster for Navarro. Mind you, the Washington DC native was obtained earlier this off season in a similar manner to Navarro (in a trade with Houston), and the Orioles drafted him before trading him in 2013.