BALTIMORE (AP) — Relief pitcher Yennier Cano and the Baltimore Orioles agreed Friday to a $7.5 million, two-year contract for the 2027 and 2028 seasons, a deal that includes a $10 million club option for 2029.
Cano agreed in January to a $1.6 million, one-year contract and the new deal calls for salaries of $2.75 million next year and $4.75 million in 2028, which would have been his last season of arbitration eligibility under the current collective bargaining agreement.
Baltimore has a $10 million club option for 2029 that can escalate by an additional $3 million based on games finished in 2028.
“Yennier has been outstanding for us both on and off the field since his arrival in 2022,” Orioles president Mike Elias said in a statement. “He has blossomed into one of the game’s most reliable and consistent relief pitchers. We are proud of all the hard work he has put in alongside our development team and are pleased he and his family will remain in Baltimore.”
The 32-year-old right-hander from Cuba has been arguably the Orioles’ best reliever this season, entering Friday with a 2.21 ERA and one save in 48 appearances.
Acquired in the 2022 trade that sent right-hander Jorge López to the Minnesota Twins, Cano earned All-Star honors with the Orioles in 2023 while pitching to a 2.11 ERA in 72 outings.
He is 11-17 with a 3.78 ERA and 16 saves in 268 career games, all but 10 of those coming with Baltimore.
The deal continues an Orioles trend of signing players already on the major league roster to multiyear contracts since David Rubenstein took over as controlling owner in March 2024. Most recently, right-handed starter Kyle Bradish received a $90 million, five-year deal covering 2027-2031, which was announced July 18.
Baltimore catcher Samuel Basallo agreed to a $67 million, eight-year deal last August and right-hander Shane Baz to a $68 million, five-year contract in March.
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Baltimore Orioles' Yennier Cano delivers in the seventh inning during the second baseball game of a doubleheader against the Boston Red Sox, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
CEUTA, Spain (AP) — The death toll in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67, the Spanish government said Saturday. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier.
Spain announced it was installing a 500-meter-long containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea after between 50,000 and 60,000 migrants breached the tiny Spanish territory’s frontier between Thursday and Friday.
A handful of exhausted migrants who swam to Ceuta's urban Tarajal beach Saturday morning were met by soldiers who escorted them back across the border. Spain's interior ministry says the majority of those who entered the Spanish territory in North Africa have already returned to Morocco.
After days of chaos and streets packed with people who had hoped for a better life in Spain, residents of Ceuta woke up Saturday to an uneasy calm.
Even so, security for residents of the autonomous city of 84,000 remained bruised.
“Life in this city has been disrupted as a result of the border incident,” said Ceuta’s President Juan Jesus Vivas.
“The return of people has begun satisfactorily but the process must be completed,” he said. “The city has not yet returned to normal.”
In Morocco, at Tangier’s main railway station, migrants back from Ceuta or who had hoped to reach the European Union slept on the ground, exhausted, as passersby watched from a distance.
“I tried to cross, but I failed. I stayed near the border with Ceuta for two days, but I couldn’t find anything to eat,” said Abdalah, an aspiring migrant who asked that his last name not be published out of fear of retaliation for trying to cross illegally.
On the road leading to the Moroccan town of Fnideq, which borders Ceuta, many migrants were seen walking toward the fence, some barefoot, apparently hoping to try their luck.
Taxi drivers and bus operators were refusing to take them, fearing retaliation from authorities.
Police officers were deployed along the road, stopping and checking every vehicle heading toward Fnideq.
But some who had made it to Ceuta were determined to stay. Among them was Mohamed Hatri, a 23-year-old Moroccan.
“They’ve closed everything down so that we can’t buy anything to eat, to force us to return to our country,” he said.
“But even if they close it down … we’re round to stay here, whether we’re hungry or not.” —— Oubachir reported from Fnideq, Morocco.
Spanish army soldiers and Guardia Civil officers stand guard as migrants return to Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)
Migrants return to Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)
Migrants run from Spanish police officers after crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)
Spanish army soldiers assist a migrant who swam from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere)
