{"id":23567,"date":"2026-06-13T10:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/weston-wilson-elects-free-agency-mlb-trade-rumors\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:02:23","slug":"weston-wilson-elects-free-agency-mlb-trade-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/weston-wilson-elects-free-agency-mlb-trade-rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Weston Wilson Elects Free Agency &#8211; MLB Trade Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/author\/af10\" title=\"Posts by Anthony Franco\" rel=\"author\">Anthony Franco<\/a> |   at June 12, 2026 11:19pm CDT  <br \/>The Orioles announced that utility player\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wilsowe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weston Wilson<\/a><\/strong> elected free agency. Baltimore designated him for assignment last week when they selected catcher <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/huffsa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Huff<\/a><\/strong> onto the MLB roster. Wilson cleared waivers and was outrighted for the second time in his career, which allowed him to test the market.<br \/>Wilson had spent the last two months on Baltimore&#8217;s MLB roster. He got some work at third base, mostly against left-handed pitching. Wilson tallied 46 plate appearances, hitting .231\/.348\/.333 with one home run. He worked six walks against 11 strikeouts. It was a decent enough showing for a bench player, but Baltimore needed to carry a third catcher with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rutscad01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adley Rutschman<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/basalsa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-06-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Samuel Basallo<\/a><\/strong> nursing minor injuries.<br \/>The 31-year-old Wilson is out of options, so the O&#8217;s needed to send him through waivers. It stands to reason they&#8217;d like to bring him back on a minor league contract, though he&#8217;ll have the opportunity to explore other opportunities. Basallo and Rutschman have both returned to the lineup over the last two games, so the O&#8217;s theoretically could reverse the weekend transaction and sign Wilson to a big league deal.<br \/>Before this season, Wilson&#8217;s MLB experience came exclusively in Philadelphia. He played three years for the Phillies as an up-and-down platoon bat, hitting .242\/.328\/.428 across 245 trips to the plate. Wilson was mostly a corner outfielder with the Phils despite Baltimore using him most frequently on the dirt.<br \/>Note to Dombrowski: Re-sign him.  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Baltimore designated him for assignment last week when they selected catcher Sam Huff onto the MLB roster. Wilson cleared waivers and was outrighted for the second time in his career, which allowed him to test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}