The Orioles' large collection of players to be named later acquired through trades from the 2020 season has now been fully identified.
The club announced Monday that it received 18-year-old right-hander Miguel Padilla from the Houston Astros to complete the July trade for right-hander Hector Velázquez. Of the six players to be named the Orioles garnered through trading five pitchers this summer, four turned out to be Latin teenagers, part of a continued effort by the front office to add to an international pipeline that wasn’t a focus of the previous regime.
Padilla, a native of Venezuela, struck out 26 over 26 innings with a 2.