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Diamondbacks Acquire Paul Fry From Orioles

By Anthony Franco | May 18, 2022 at 6:17pm CDT

The Orioles announced they’ve traded reliever Paul Fry to the Diamondbacks for minor league righty Luis Osorio. Arizona immediately optioned him to Triple-A Reno, and the club had a pair of 40-man roster vacancies after placing Cooper Hummel and Kyle Nelson on the COVID-19 injured list this afternoon.

Baltimore had designated Fry for assignment over the weekend. That marked a fairly swift downturn after the southpaw got off to an excellent start to the 2021 campaign that seemed as if it’d make him a deadline trade chip. From the start of the 2021 season through the All-Star Break, Fry held opposing hitters to a pitiful .210/.326/.218 slash in 33 innings. His 4.09 ERA was fairly ordinary, but he struck out 31% of opposing hitters while inducing grounders on over half the balls in play against him.

Unfortunately, Fry’s performance has taken a sharp downward turn since that point. Going back to the All-Star Break, the Michigan native has an 8.54 ERA in only 26 1/3 frames. Fry has continued to keep the ball on the ground, but his strikeout rate has plummeted to a below-average 22% while his walk percentage has spiked to an untenable 19.7%. The O’s have optioned Fry a couple times in that span and eventually moved on altogether after he allowed nine runs in his 12 frames this year.

It’s possible the Snakes’ acquisition was motivated by Nelson’s loss to the virus list, but that they relinquished a minor league arm would seemingly indicate Fry could hold a 40-man roster spot. Osorio, 19, signed with the D-Backs out of Venezuela. He spent last season in the Dominican Summer League.

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  1. Curly Was The Smart Stooge

    8 months ago

    It was either Paul Fry or Jim Bakker

    Reply
    • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

      8 months ago

      They originally traded for Tammy Faye, but they found Jimmy Hoffa under all the make up, ended up a mystery

      Reply
      • Gwynning

        8 months ago

        It was all a ruse hidden under rouge and fake eyelashes! I’d trade them all for Jessica Hahn…

        Reply
        • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

          8 months ago

          You can’t, she sucks…

        • Gwynning

          8 months ago

          80 grade rating, I’m still all in!

        • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

          8 months ago

          Lucky for Jessica, the bottom articles are referring to the “sticky stuff” ban

        • Curly Was The Smart Stooge

          8 months ago

          @Gwynning, you realize we’re in a world of our own?

        • Gwynning

          8 months ago

          There’s something there, I just can’t finger it… I gotta trust my scouts on this one. I’m signing Hahn to a 1 year prove-it type deal. The Future Value is low but the bust potential is there.

        • RoastGobot

          8 months ago

          I love inside jokes I’d love to be a part of one someday

        • BeansforJesus

          8 months ago

          The inside joke is that a televangelist r@ped a woman then paid her hush money. Curly made a joke about how she is glad the “sticky stuff” is banned. Very classless.

          However, Curly fails to mention his wife and mother were against the “sticky stuff” ban and swallowed all they could in protest.

        • Mike Timlincecum

          8 months ago

          Oof that was awful. Jesus was never known for his humor

  2. wheby

    8 months ago

    Well, might as well get an 18 year old lottery ticket. Better than nothing!

    Good luck in AZ Paul. That slider is special. Let’s hope the fastball can catch up to it.

    Reply
    • Ed "The Mythical One"

      8 months ago

      Other than the fact he’s already over 19, going on 20…..

      Reply
      • jbigz12

        8 months ago

        Miserable Ed!

        Reply
        • Ed "The Mythical One"

          8 months ago

          Sorry the news is miserable, but at least it is factual.

  3. scottaz

    8 months ago

    Dbacks still searching for answers to their bullpen problems. Statistically, this year’s bullpen is as bad as last year’s, although the eyeball test suggests there has been some improvement.

    Reply
  4. C Yards Jeff

    8 months ago

    Spin rate. Spin rate? Spin rate! Did the sticky stuff ban have anything to with his 2nd half 2021 decline?

    Reply
    • Mike Timlincecum

      8 months ago

      It would make for a good article to see whose spin rates have declined since sticky stuff ban, and any correlation with their performance

      Reply
  5. Ghost Pepper

    8 months ago

    Can’t wait till we play the Angels!
    Trout will fry us.

    Reply
  6. Adampunk13

    8 months ago

    Im rooting hard for the D-Backs they just need some peices put together

    Reply
  7. Ed "The Mythical One"

    8 months ago

    Reached for comment, Mike Elias stated, “We really liked that he had a lot of “o”‘s in his last name. In fact his last name is “Os” and “orio” which is practically orioles.”

    When asked about the young pitcher’s talent, Elias responded, “Well, he’s young.”

    Reply
    • Mike Timlincecum

      8 months ago

      Hyde your kids

      Reply
      • sfes

        8 months ago

        And Hyde ya husbands cause they trading everybody out here

        Reply
        • Ed "The Mythical One"

          8 months ago

          The O’s are dumb, really really dumb, for real.

    • pohle

      8 months ago

      some 19 year old with a bunch of o’s in his name is better than the 50k recouped by a waiver claim, i have more faith in this orioles rebuild than the other teardowns around the league

      Reply
      • Ed "The Mythical One"

        8 months ago

        Why?

        Reply
        • pohle

          8 months ago

          more of a gut feeling about elias coming over from the astros, i believe they have the best baseball program in the league. i like the internal pitching developments especially and while the position player side looks weak, ill put my trust in elias and that baseball system than any other rebuilding clubs

        • Ed "The Mythical One"

          8 months ago

          So Elias came over from an organization that was proven to be cheating. The best baseball program in the league? What…..are you talking about the Astros or the Orioles? Because the situations are completely different.

          His goal here is to keep spending way down. He’s not in total control here. It is the same old, same old here in Baltimore.

          The internal pitching developments? Like what…who? The best guy they had, John Means, wasn’t even a guy they were high on. It is like they discovered him by mistake, and typical O’s fashion, they broke him.

          The position player side looks more than weak. All the current “youngsters” are over 25. All of them are flawed players. None of them have any extended period of success at the MLB level. Once they do, the O’s will trade them rather than pay them.

          I’ve given this organization the benefit of the doubt for decades. They don’t get it anymore. They have to prove it to me now. Seeing is believing, and I don’t believe in what I am seeing so far.

  8. underdog

    8 months ago

    Fry told Arizona, don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank!

    Reply

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