The Orioles are signing infielder to a minor league deal with an invitation to spring training, ESPNs Jorge Castillo. The former As infielder spent the past two seasons playing in the Mexican League and last appeared in a big league game during the 2022 season. Machin is a client of Usus Sports Management. Machin, 31, Gerry Cheevers Jersey was the Athletics Rule 5 pick out of the Cubs organization back in 2019. He held a roster spot in the shortened 2020 season, tallying 74 plate appearances, and picked up another 15 MLB plate appearances in 2021. Machins career-high workload in the majors came in 2022, when Oakland plugged him into 73 games and gave him 253 turns at the plate. Hes shown strong discipline in the majors, walking at a 10% clip, but Machin is just a .208/.290/.261 hitter overall. That tepid production has come in a sample of 361 plate appearances acro s three seasons, but Machin has been much better in the upper minors. Hes a career .291/.384/.439 hitter in parts of five Triple-A campaigns and just last year posted a ridiculous-looking .401/.495/.579 slash in 85 games with los Charros de Jalisco in Mexico. (As evidenced by that line, the Mexican League is an overwhelmingly hitter-friendly setting even more so than the Triple-A Pacific Coast League.) Machin has played all four infield positions extensively. Hes spent the most time at third base (3810 innings) but also has more than 2000 innings at second base, more than 1000 at first base and another 935 innings at shortstop. Hes a left-handed bat with excellent plate discipline (12.8% walk rate in Triple-A) and strong bat-to-ball skills (15.3% strikeout rate in Triple-A; 18.6% in the majors). Baltimore obviously has a crowded infield already, with , , , , , and all mixing in at various spots. Machin adds some experienced depth to stash in Triple-A and an option to compete for a roster spot if a combination of injuries and trades thins out Baltimores enviable stash of infielders at some point. Michael Dipietro Jersey