2:26pm: The Dodgers introduced that they’ve acquired McDermott in alternate for minor league righty Axel Perez. They already had a 40-man emptiness, so no additional strikes are essential.
2:10pm: The Orioles are buying and selling right-hander Chayce McDermott, whom they designated for project final week, to the Dodgers, per Jon Heyman of the New York Post. He’s being optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City together with his new membership, Jack Harris of the California Post adds.
McDermott, 25, is simply a pair seasons faraway from being thought-about certainly one of Baltimore’s high prospects. He fired 119 frames of three.10 ERA ball between Double-A and Triple-A and adopted that with 100 frames and a 3.78 ERA in Triple-A the next season. McDermott made a short MLB debut in 2024, tossing 4 innings, and it appeared as if he’d quickly emerge as an everyday contributor on the Orioles’ workers.
That by no means occurred, nevertheless. The 2025 season was a nightmare for the previous fourth-rounder. McDermott was shelled for a 6.91 ERA in his first 11 begins on the Triple-A degree. Opponents collected 43 hits — six of them homers — and drew 36 walks in simply 43 innings throughout that brutal run of 11 begins. McDermott additionally hit 4 batters and was charged with seven wild pitches. In mild of these struggles, the O’s moved him to the bullpen. After a tough first outing (5 runs in 1 2/3 innings), he settled in to log a 1.76 ERA and 18-to-7 Okay/BB ratio throughout his closing 15 1/3 innings out of the Triple-A bullpen.
It’s been a battle for McDermott in 2026. He’s pitched 5 1/3 innings out of the Norfolk bullpen and surrendered 4 runs on 5 hits, six walks and a hit-by-pitch. McDermott additionally pitched three spring innings for Baltimore and was tagged for 3 solo dwelling runs.
Shaky command has lengthy been McDermott’s largest flaw, and with the right-hander nonetheless struggling in that regard throughout what’s now his closing minor league choice 12 months, Baltimore moved on final week. McDermott’s former prospect standing was sufficient to generate some curiosity within the commerce market, and he’ll now see whether or not he can develop into the most recent change-of-scenery candidate to seek out new life within the Dodgers group. Los Angeles has loads of success tales of this nature — at the least partially because of the sheer quantity of gamers they decide up in fringe transactions of simply this nature. Often, they’ll rapidly attempt to cross mentioned participant by way of waivers themselves, although since McDermott can nonetheless be optioned, there’s no urgency to take action within the speedy future.
More to come back.
