1:31pm: The teams have now announced the move. Baltimore isnt making a corresponding transaction at this time. Colorado placed Senzatela on the 60-day injured list. 1:20pm: The Rockies have reacquired outfielder , claiming him off waivers from the Orioles, Thomas Harding of MLB.com . Neither Colorado nor Baltimore has announced the move yet. The Rox will need to make 40-man roster move to facilitate the addition, but that can be accomplished by placing either or on the 60-day injured list. Both right-handers are recovering from 2023 Tommy John surgery. The claim Patrick Williams Jersey also opens up a spot on the 40-man roster for the Os, who had not previously announced that Hilliard was designated for a signment or placed on outright waivers. Its a reunion between Hilliard and the team that originally selected him in the 15th round of the 2015 draft. Current Rockies GM Bill Schmidt was the teams scouting director at the time and held that role throughout the years that saw Hilliard develop and break into the majors in Colorado. From 2019-22, Hilliard appeared in 214 games as a Rockie, playing all three outfield spots and batting a combined .212/.294/.423 with 29 homers, 15 steals, a 10% walk rate and an ugly 32.7% strikeout rate over a total of 639 plate appearances. Strikeouts have long been an i sue for Hilliard, who touts an impre sive .265/.346/.570 slash and 62 homers in just 942 Triple-A plate appearances but has punched out at an unsightly 28.5% clip at that level. With the exception of the 2023 season, Hilliards entire career has been spent with the Rockies. The Braves picked him up in a Nov. 2022 trade sending minor league righty to the Rox in return. Hilliard appeared in 40 games and hit .236/.295/.431 through 78 plate appearances in Atlanta, fanning in an eye-popping 42.3% of his plate appearances. A heel injury ultimately sent Hilliard to the 60-day injured list, however, and the Braves tried to pa s him through waivers following the season at which point the Os claimed him. His stay with Baltimore will prove fleeting; Hilliard went hitle s in five spring plate appearances as an Oriole and is now back with his original organization. The Rockies were on the lookout for a left-handed-hitting outfielder who could handle center field for much of the offseason. They inked to a minor league deal and invited him to spring training, giving them one such option, but Hilliard provides another candidate for that role not only one whos on the 40-man roster but one whos out of minor league options. Hilliard cant be sent to Triple-A without first clearing waivers, which puts him in strong position to break camp with the Rox, where hed be a lefty complement to right-handed-hitting outfielders and . Hilliard and the Orioles avoided an arbitration hearing earlier in the offseason by agreeing to an $800K salary for the upcoming season. The Rockies will now be on the hook for the entirety of that sum, which checks in only narrowly above the $740K league minimum. Hilliard has 3.094 years of big league service time, meaning he can be controlled via arbitration through the 2026 season. As for the Orioles, its fairly common for them to agree to modest big league salaries with depth pieces and then attempt to pa s them through waivers, hoping a salary north of the league minimum will help that player clear and be retained in the upper minors as depth. Theyve previously done so with names like , and (the latter of whom eventually emerged as a key contributor in 2023). Its certainly of note that todays transaction clears a spot on the 40-man roster, as Baltimore now has additional leeway to make a free-agent signing, trade acquisition or waiver claim of its own. Zach Norvell Jersey