The San Diego Padres bolstered their rotation on Sunday, acquiring left-hander Sean Manaea in a trade with the Oakland Athletics.

San Diego got the 30-year-old Manaea and minor league right-hander Aaron Holiday from Oakland for pitching prospect Adrian Martinez and minor league infielder Euribiel Angeles.

Manaea went 11-10 with a 3.91 ERA in 32 starts last year. He had two shutouts and struck out a career-high 194 batters, ranking eighth in the American League.

The addition of Manaea could lead to another move for San Diego, which was already flush with starting pitching before the trade with Oakland.

The A’s are rebuilding after going 86-76 last year, missing the playoffs for the first time since 2017. Right-hander Chris Bassitt, slugging first baseman Matt Olson and third baseman Matt Chapman were traded last month.

Martinez played for Double-A San Antonio and Triple-A El Paso last year, going 8-5 with a 3.38 ERA in 26 games, 22 starts. The right-hander finished with 122 strikeouts in 125 innings.

Martinez, 25, missed the 2016 season following Tommy John surgery and the 2020 season because of the pandemic.

Angeles played for Low-A Lake Elsinore and High-A Fort Wayne last year, batting .329 with four homers, 64 RBI and 19 stolen bases in 105 games. The 19-year-old right-handed hitter was signed by the Padres out of the Dominican Republic in 2018.

Manaea was selected by Kansas City in the first round of the 2013 amateur draft. He was traded to Oakland in the July 2015 deal that moved Ben Zobrist to the Royals.

Manaea is 50-41 with a 3.86 ERA and 641 strikeouts in 129 career games, including 128 starts, in six seasons. He agreed to a $9.75 million, one-year contract last month, avoiding arbitration.

YANKEES: There are plenty of things Carlos Beltran needs to do once he begins his job as a New York Yankees announcer on Monday.

Become familiar with the YES Network setting. Get comfortable alongside his broadcast teammates. Find a rhythm that works for him on air as an analyst.

One thing he doesn’t need to do, Yankees star slugger Aaron Judge said, is address the team about his role in the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal in 2017.

Beltran played for Houston that year when it beat the Yankees in the AL Championship Series on the way to its first World Series title. After news of the scandal broke much later, New York players took aim at the Astros, with Judge asserting they “cheated and you didn’t earn it.”

“In my opinion, I don’t think he needs to say anything to us,” Judge said Sunday. “I’ve got a lot of respect for Beltran, he helped me a lot during his time here as a player. Learned a lot of good lessons. He spent a lot of quality time just kind of talking to me about the game, the mental side of the game, his approaches, how to be a good teammate.”

Beltran retired as a player after the 2017 season. He played with the Yankees in 2014 and 2015, and a part of 2016.

“I’d love to talk to him,” Judge said. “It’s been a while since I’ve seen him. Just getting a chance to catch up with him and see what he’s up to because we’re to be seeing a lot of him during the year. Just looking forward to having him back around because he was a big part of this team, a big part of baseball, what he brings to the game and what he’s going to bring to the Yes Network is going to be big time.”

YANKEES-METS TRADE: New York’s baseball teams have swapped relievers, with the Mets sending right-hander Miguel Castro to the Yankees for left-hander Joely Rodriguez.

The 27-year-old Castro had a 3.45 ERA over a career-best 69 appearances last season, going 3-4 with 77 strikeouts in 70 1/3 innings. He’ll make $2.62 million this season after signing a deal this month to avoid arbitration.

Rodriguez gives the Mets a needed southpaw for the bullpen after Aaron Loup left for the Los Angeles Angels in free agency.

BLUE JAYS-WHITE SOX TRADE: Chicago acquired Reese McGuire from Toronto for Zack Collins in a trade of reserve catchers.

McGuire was selected by Pittsburgh in the first round of the 2013 amateur draft. He batted .253 with a homer and 10 RBI in a career-high 78 games last year.

The 27-year-old McGuire made his big league debut in 2018. He is a .248 hitter with nine homers and 26 RBI in 141 career games, all with the Blue Jays.

Collins, 27, set career highs with a .210 batting average, four homers and 26 RBI in 78 games for the AL Central champions last year.

Collins was drafted by Chicago with the 10th overall pick in the 2016 amateur draft. He is a .195 hitter with seven homers and 38 RBIs in 114 career games, all with the White Sox.

ASTROS: Houston ace Justin Verlander pitched five solid innings in his final spring training tune-up and pronounced himself healthy and ready to start the season.

His next start is set to come in the third game of the year, next Saturday night on the road against the Los Angeles Angels.

“I’m happy to get through it healthy, but I still have some stuff to work on,” Verlander said. “I’m looking at it two different ways. Definitely pleased with the health part, though.”

The two-time Cy Young winner hasn’t pitched in the regular season since July 2020 – after making his first start in the pandemic-delayed year, he had Tommy John surgery.

Verlander made four starts this spring, allowing two runs in 13 2/3 innings while striking out 15 and walking four. He hadn’t permitted a run until Washington scored twice against him Sunday – both scored on a single by Cesar Hernandez in the fifth as Verlander approached his pitch count target of 75.

METS: While New York waits to see when Max Scherzer will pitch, fellow ace Jacob deGrom admitted to being blindsided by the diagnosis that he won’t throw for a while.

“I’m really frustrated,” deGrom said Sunday, two days after an MRI revealed a stress reaction and inflammation around his right shoulder blade.

The two-time Cy Young Award winner is shut down from tossing for up to four weeks. Factoring in recovery and ramp-up time, he likely could miss at least two months before returning to the Mets’ rotation.

Scherzer’s status, meanwhile, is still uncertain as opening day Thursday in Washington against the Nationals approaches.

The 37-year-old Scherzer revealed Saturday that he had a tight right hamstring, an injury he has battled throughout his career.

Manager Buck Showalter said the team will soon get an indication of when the three-time Cy Young Award winner will be available.

REDS: Cincinnati informed Shogo Akiyama that he would not make the Opening Day roster, leaving him to decide whether he’ll go down to Triple-A or become a free agent.

A productive player for nearly a decade in Japan, the outfielder wasn’t able to duplicate that success in two seasons with Cincinnati. He turns 34 later this month.

The left-handed hitter batted .224 overall with no home runs and 21 RBI in 142 games for the Reds. He hit .204 last year and was slowed by hamstring injuries.

In Japan, he was a career .304 hitter in nine seasons and hit at least 20 homers in his last three years.

NATIONALS: To the Washington Nationals, too many games ended last season with star Juan Soto watching from the on-deck circle instead of swinging in the batter’s box.

Nationals Manager Davey Martinez hopes to limit the number of times that occurs this season by moving Soto to the second spot in the batting order.

“Last year there were 14 times when he was on deck and didn’t get that last at-bat,” Martinez said. “If he’s going to get an opportunity to hit again, you want him to hit.”

Last year, Washington’s No. 2 hitter made 19 more plate appearances that its No. 3 hitter. But that’s not the only reason Martinez likes Soto hitting second.

With the National League adopting the designated hitter this year, the ninth hitter — for the Nats, often this spring it’s been Victor Robles – isn’t a pitcher, which should provide the No. 2 hitter with more RBI opportunities.

Martinez also helped sell Soto on the move to the second spot with a persuasive factoid.

“I told him seven of the last 10 MVPs did hit second,” Martinez said.