The Orioles announced the acquisition of left-hander Grant Wolfram from the Brewers for minor league outfielder Daz Cameron and cash. Milwaukee had designated Wolfram for assignment this morning as the corresponding move for the Quinn Priester trade. He’ll take a spot on Baltimore’s 40-man roster and was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk. The O’s transferred righty Albert Suárez to the 60-day injured list in a corresponding move.
Wolfram, 28, continues to await his major league debut. The 6’7″ southpaw pitched in the Texas farm system between 2018-24. He topped out at Triple-A and qualified for minor league free agency last offseason. Milwaukee saw enough in his minor league numbers to sign him to a major league contract. Wolfram opened the season on optional assignment to Triple-A. They called him up for the first time yesterday but did not get him into a game before designating him for assignment.
The lefty worked three Triple-A frames in the Milwaukee system. He gave up two runs while issuing four walks and recording three strikeouts. Wolfram pitched well in the Pacific Coast League a year ago. He turned in a 3.34 earned run average with a strong 25.6% strikeout rate across 56 2/3 frames with the Rangers’ top affiliate. While Wolfram has had spotty command throughout his minor league tenure, his fastball-slider combination has gotten a decent number of whiffs. He sits in the 94-95 MPH range with both his four-seam and sinker. Wolfram is in his first of three option years, so the O’s can keep him in Norfolk for a while if he holds his spot on their 40-man roster.
Cameron was not on Baltimore’s 40-man roster, so he won’t occupy an immediate spot with Milwaukee. He finished last season with the A’s. Baltimore grabbed him off waivers at the beginning of the offseason. They ran him through waivers early in Spring Training and kept him in the system when he accepted a minor league assignment.
The son of former Brewer Mike Cameron, Daz was a supplemental first-round pick and highly-regarded prospect. He hit .200/.258/.329 across a personal-high 186 plate appearances with the A’s last season. That essentially matches his career .201/.263/.330 slash over parts of four seasons. The 28-year-old Cameron has played parts of seven Triple-A campaigns. He’s a .250/.339/.425 hitter in more than 1800 plate appearances at the top minor league level.
Suárez landed on the 15-day IL last week with what the team initially called shoulder inflammation. They announced the injury today as a subscapularis strain. He’ll be down through at least the end of May. Suárez opened the season in long relief after Cade Povich won the fifth starter job during Spring Training. He had only made one appearance before the injury. Suárez was a valuable swingman last season, tossing 133 2/3 frames of 3.70 ERA ball while starting 24 of 32 appearances.
Wolfram sounds like a Pokemon.
Or like a raspy-voiced radio jockey from the 60s…
“Clap for the Wolfram – you gonna dig him till the day you die”
Darn you Jeff, beat me to it. Well done.
“Raspy voiced”…Or a silver spoon, rich guy who’s never worked a day in his life.
I hope he doesn’t say “it’s pronounced wol fram”
Sounds like my new name when I start my film acting career.
Padres dropped the ball. You can never go wrong having a Wolf-ram in your minor league system!!!
Poor kid gets called up Saturday night and makes it to Milwaukee for a Sunday day game to meet the media, 8 of them. Then after the game gets DFAed. And this is qualified as a great day in baseball terms. Good thing his family made th3 drive to MKE see him in a big league uniform only to find out on the ride home the Brewers left him behind on they to Denver.
Two George Costanza/MLBTR reports in one day!
George: “What is Tungsten? Or Wolfram.”
Alex Trebek: [on TV] We were looking for ‘What is Tungsten? Or Wolfram.’.
No sex allowed George to use his whole head of lettuce.
“I saw Wolfram drinking a Pina colada at Traders Vic’s, and his hair was perfect” doh
Grant Wolfram. A name straight out of the Civil War era.
Wasn’t Grant Wolfram a colonel in the 7th cavalry?
Maybe? The name straight up sounds like a commander in that time period.
@mlb fan….Close! Wolfram was a German colonel in WWI. It looks like there were a few Wolframs in the Civil War.
Thought it said they got a wolfman
that would be a lot cooler
Finally…. The coveted Corbin Burns replacement that the Orioles fans were hoping for.
Yea. Something definitely wrong when the new owner says publicly that the team has no spending restrictions. Yet they didn’t bring in any free agents to tip the scales offensively and no one to help the pitching. And they have not extended any of the young good players.
“Yea. Something definitely wrong”…I did hear that the Orioles did run up a surprisingly large tab at the “Olive Garden” last weekend. That should make you feel better.
Brilliant take! Suprised you didn’t didn’t add the “print the playoff tickets” hacky chestnut.
“Corbin Burnes”. Wrong former Oriole comparison. The Brewers actually preferred giving up DL Hall here. Orioles balked. Wolfram or no deal.
Not too bad of job for Arnold. improved the 40 man with depth. Priester and Cameron for Wolfram and A player. Now who do dfa? My guess is we return the Rule V pitcher
No need to move anyone. Preister takes Wolfram,s spot. And according to the article, “Cameron was not on Baltimore’s 40-man roster, so he won’t occupy an immediate spot with Milwaukee.”
Ok thanks I was going by MLB transactions which showed Cameron on the 40 man but optioned to AAA.
He’ll give hitters the tungsten sombrero.
hoping that Wolfram Pokemon can defeat Cionel Pokemon.
Big boy. Small injury history. Worth a look see.
Clap for the Wolfram, he’s striking out the PCL high
Clap for the Wolfram, O’s grabbed him from the Brewers’ try
Clap for the Wolfram, he’s pitching Norfolk’s next big ply
(Mmm… Yes, gracious!)
Clap for the Wolfram, you gonna cheer him till the day you die
The Brewers pick up a bad field, bad hit guy .Should have a mediocre season in Nashville. From there? Who knows?
Daz Cameron is a good fielder with a very good arm. He has good speed but, he strikes out often and rarely walks, however.
hope that Daz catches on somewhere, I wish he could have learned a bit of plate discipline from the Orioles’ player dev program. maybe he can a 4th outfielder for MIL.
Wolfram…runs like a Wolf, bats like a ram. Cousin of Willie Mays Hayes.
Isn’t Grant Wolfram a search engine?