Padres, O's Swap Meredith and Salazar

Roch Kubatko reports that the Orioles have traded infielder Oscar Salazar to the Padres. In return the Padres traded Cla Meredith to the Orioles.

"He gets a lot of ground balls and can pitch every other day," O's president Andy MacPhail said Sunday evening. "The ground ball ratio becomes more important later in the summer in our ballpark."