1:07pm: The Orioles have announced the selection of Princely Umanmielen Jersey Nittolis contract. In corresponding moves, left-hander was optioned to Triple-A and Coulombe was transferred to the 60-day IL. 8:45am: The Orioles are selecting the contract of right-hander , as reported this morning. The righty signed with the club on a earlier this month. The club will need to make a corresponding 40-man move in order to add Nittoli to the roster, though that could be accomplished by transferring lefty to the 60-day injured list. Nittoli, 33, was a 25th-round pick by the Mariners back in 2014 and has spent his decade in profe sional baseball largely as a minor league journeyman. After spending a few years in Seattles minor league system, Nittoli departed affiliated ball in 2017 and spent two years pitching in the independent American A sociation before catching back on in the minors. Over the course of his profe sional career, hes suited up for the Mariners, Blue Jays, Diamondbacks, Yankees, Phillies, Cubs, Mets, As, and now the Orioles at the Triple-A level. In all that time, however, hes received only scattered playing time in the majors with 13 big league appearances to his name. More than half of those appearances came with the As earlier this season. He pitched eight innings of work in total with Oakland, and performed to a strong 2.25 ERA with five strikeouts against two walks. The righty has actually received similarly brief cups of coffee in the major leagues in each of the last four seasons, having first made his big league debut with the Mariners back in 2021. In all, Nittoli sports a 3.07 ERA despite a lackluster 5.02 FIP and a strikeout rate of just 16.4% in 14 2/3 innings of work at the big league level. Despite those relatively pedestrian numbers at the big league level, it isnt hard to see why the Orioles would be interested in giving Nittoli a look at the big league level. Hes been nothing short of dominant at the Triple-A level this year with a 2.73 ERA in 26 1/3 innings of work split between the affiliates of Oakland and Baltimore. That already impre sive figure is made all the more intriguing by the fact that the majority of those innings came in the inflated offensive environment of the Pacific Coast League, where the Athletics affiliate in Las Vegas plays. Nittoli has paired those strong run prevention numbers with an eye-popping 36% strikeout rate at the level this year, suggesting that there could be a meaningful improvement in skills to go along with the results. Altogether, Nittolis resume is interesting enough for the Orioles to give him a shot in their bullpen mix. The clubs relief corps has been more or le s league average this year, rankings 14th in baseball with a 3.84 ERA, but theres certainly room for improvement ahead of the clubs back-end duo of and , particularly after Coulombe underwent surgery last month. Right-hander , for example, can be optioned to the minors and has struggled to a 5.14 ERA and 4.38 FIP in 14 innings of work with the club. Brett DioGuardi Jersey