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Orioles send shortstop Freddy Galvis to Phillies amid otherwise quiet trade deadline for team

A busy trade deadline around Major League Baseball was relatively quiet for the rebuilding Orioles, who in the waning minutes before Friday’s 4 p.m. cutoff sent injured shortstop Freddy Galvis to the Philadelphia Phillies but held on to all of their available players who remained under team control beyond this season, according to a source with direct knowledge.

Galvis, 31, has been on the 10-day injured list for the past month with a right quadriceps strain but has been taking at-bats at the Orioles’ Sarasota, Florida, complex in hopes of returning in early August. He will become a free agent after this season, with the $1.