Blue Jays send minor leaguer to the Orioles for cash

The Blue Jays traded infielder Yeltsin Gudino to the division rival Baltimore Orioles Friday in exchange for cash considerations.

According to numerous reports (including those of MASN’s Roch Kubatko and MLB.com’s Joe Trezza), the Blue Jays have traded MiLB infielder Yeltsin Gudino to the Baltimore Orioles for cash considerations. Trezza adds that Gudino has been assigned to High-A Frederick.

This is the second trade the two teams have made this year, the first being another minor swap involving outfielder Dwight Smith Jr. on March 8.

Gudino, 22, was signed by the Blue Jays as an international free agent in July 2013 and spent the 2014 season with the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League (DSL) and Gulf Coast League (GCL) Blue Jays, slashing a combined .145/.219/.167 in 40 games. He walked 13 times and struck out 28 times.

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The native of Maracay, Venezuela spent the 2015 season with Bluefield (.516 OPS, 56 G, 12 2B, 233 PAs) and was in Vancouver for the 2016 season campaign (.596 OPS, 54 G, 15 RBI, 18 R).

In 2017, he slashed .259/.330/.317 with the Low-A Lansing Lugnuts, adding two home runs and 42 RBI in 115 games. The majority of his 2018 season was spent between Lansing and Dunedin; he posted a combined .653 OPS in 91 games.

Primarily a second baseman, Gudino was not ranked on the Blue Jays’ top prospects list by MLB Pipeline in any of the past three seasons.

This spring, he appeared in two games, striking out once and getting a hit in two at-bats.

He spent the winter playing for the Tigres de Aragua of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. That team also featured former Blue Jays Franklin Barreto and Ezequiel Carrera, as well as current prospects Kevin Vicuna and Alex Monsalve.

In 45 games for the Tigres, he slashed .288/.336/.356 and added three doubles, two triples and eight walks in 104 at-bats.