The Orioles and outfielder Leody Taveras have agreed to a contract, a source told MLB.com's Jake Rill. The club has not confirmed.

Taveras, 27, was released by the Mariners last June after Seattle had claimed him off waivers from the Rangers the prior month.

He was originally signed out of the Dominican Republic by Texas in 2015, and after making his Major League debut in the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign he spent the first five-plus seasons of his career with the Rangers.

Taveras' best season came in 2023, when he posted a .733 OPS with 14 home runs and 14 steals to help the Rangers win their first World Series title. He made a memorable catch to rob the Astros' Yordan Alvarez of a homer in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series that fall.

In Game 1 of that series, he

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