It’s bad news that a quality reliever that wasn’t guaranteed to be on the market DID arrive on the market to compete with the Cubs’ bullpen pieces … but it’s good news that he wound up going to a team that hadn’t been explicitly connected to the Cubs.
The Orioles’ selloff continues, with 2.5 years of Jorge Lopez going to the Twins:
Twins sending RHP Yennier Cano and prospects to Orioles, per source.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 2, 2022
So we’ll see what happens with David Robertson and Mychal Givens. The Cubs may prefer package deals, but, whatever happens, you can presume those two will go today.
UPDATE: For future comparison purposes, the Orioles decided to go with the big “volume” approach in the return:
Full deal, per sources:
Minnesota gets: closer Jorge Lopez
Baltimore gets: LHP Cade Povich, RHP Yennier Cano, RHP Juan Nuñez and LHP Juan Rojas@JonHeyman was first with Lopez going to Minnesota— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 2, 2022
