The Rays traded him in a roster cleanup move to the Indians for an unranked Dominican kid (back to that in a minute)
Here's the point I was going to make on the question of why Shane McClanahan could be available.
When I say "it's in their character", it's what the Rays do. They aren't holding anyone. Everything is transition. They want to identify Talent, develop it and they leverage that chaos or churn culture as part of being a notorious small-market team.
That Dominican kid they traded Tobias Myers for (btw, game over, Brewers win) was Junior Caminero who is now the Rays top prospect and #3 on the Big Board. When the Rays want a couple kids from your system, they might know something you don't even if you care nothing about it today.
So walk through the details on your own....but...go back to...
...the 2014 trade of David Price (to Tigers)
...the 2018 trade of Chris Archer (to Pirates)
...the 2020 trade of former Cy Blake Snell (to Padres)
...the 2024 trade for Tyler Glasnow (to Dodgers)
...they've made the Playoffs the last 5 years....they're trading these guys for Talent they want that they have continued to churn. Unlike other teams who are typically holding onto their top Talent as part of a competitive team(s), the Rays haven't operated that way.
They move guys for Talent they want. McClanahan was one of the betters starters in MLB in 2022, but he's got some injury risk today, he's a Super 2 and it's unlikely they take him all the way to FA....they've actually traded guys typically with more than just the last year to FA....that's basically no time between recovery and the window they routinely start moving.
Rays perspective: Shed the risk, shed some cost and add a handful of guys that nobody knows that will be quality guys for us.
Orioles perspective: By lower with the risk, trade guys the Rays like (oh no...maybe we should have held them) and wait for the return to strength, not buy high after the fact like Crochet.
Maybe they don't want to trade him. Maybe he's a broken toy and doesn't make it back. Everything is risk-reward,
...but it's certainly in the nature of the Rays to consider something like trading him for [whatever]