LOS ANGELES — The red-hot Pittsburgh Pirates bolstered their Major League Baseball playoff run on Tuesday by acquiring all-star pitcher Chris Archer from Tampa Bay in exchange for three prospects.
The Pirates beefed up their pitching rotation by adding Archer and sending the Rays outfielder Austin Meadows, pitcher Tyler Glasnow and another player who will be named in the future.
Two-time all-star Archer is 3-5 with a 4.31 ERA in 17 starts this season for the Rays.
“Black & yellow, black & yellow!!!!” Archer wrote on Twitter, referring to the new colors he will be wearing on the mound.
The 29-year-old joins a young starting rotation that also includes Jameson Taillon, Trevor Williams and Joe Musgrove.
Archer will be paid $7.5 million next season by the Pirates, who have won seven of their past 10 games and are third in the National League’s Central Division.
Elsewhere, the Baltimore Orioles sent right-handed starters Kevin Gausman and Darren O’Day to the Atlanta Braves.
In return, Baltimore is getting four minor leaguers — right-hander Evan Phillips, infielder Jean Carlos Encarnacion, catcher Brett Cumberland and left-hander Bruce Zimmermann.
The 27-year-old Gausman is 5-8 with a 4.43 ERA for the Orioles this season. He is under contract through the 2020 season. — AFP
