BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Ed Smith Stadium 2700 12Th Street Sarasota, FL 34237
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BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Ed Smith Stadium 2700 12th Street Sarasota, FL 34237 BALTIMORE ORIOLES SPRING TRAINING NOTES Sunday, March 3, 2013 Ed Smith Stadium Sarasota, FL BALTIMORE ORIOLES (6-2) vs. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (3-4) 1:05 PM ET TODAY’S GAME YESTERDAY: The O’s suffered their second defeat of the spring at the hands of the Tampa Bay Rays Saturday in Port Charlotte…Starter Wei-Yin Chen worked two scoreless innings for the Birds...Brian The Orioles meet the Phillies in the first of three scheduled match-ups this spring…RH Matusz was roughed up for three runs over two innings and allowed a pair of homers…Manny Machado Chris Tillman will make his second start of the tripled and Ryan Flaherty doubled for the Birds…Troy Patton and Daniel McCutchen each worked a spring and will be followed by RH Miguel scoreless inning in relief. Gonzalez…The teams will also meet in Clearwater on the 17th and in Sarasota on the GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE SLATE: The Orioles have 33 scheduled games, with 17 in Sarasota and 16 on 23rd. the road against Major League opponents…There are also exhibition games scheduled against Team Spain of this year’s World Baseball Classic on March 6 and State College of Florida on March 29…The O’s will TODAY’S PITCHERS (3/3) split the squad twice, February 27 and March 17, playing two games on each of those dates. BALTIMORE: RH Chris Tillman, RH Miguel GETTING STARTED: The Orioles began the exhibition schedule with 61 players on their major league Gonzalez, RH Todd Redmond, RH Steve Johnson, RH Dylan Bundy and RH Adam camp roster (21 non-roster invitees)…27 players from the current 40-man roster were in major league camp Russell with the O’s last spring. PHILADELPHIA: RH Kyle Kendrick, LH WELCOME BACK: Pitchers on the 40-man that saw regular season action for Baltimore in 2012 (15): Jake Diekma, RH Zach Miner and LHP Jeremy Arrieta, Ayala, Britton, Bundy, Chen, Gonzalez, Hammel, Hunter, J. Johnson, S. Johnson, Matusz, O’Day, Horst Patton, Strop, and Tillman…Additionally, Tsuyoshi Wada was on the DL all year…Returning Baltimore position players on the 40-man roster that played for the O’s in 2012 (14): Avery, Betemit, Davis, Flaherty, MONDAY (3/4) Hardy, Hoes, Jones, Machado, Markakis, McLouth, Reimold, Roberts, Teagarden and Wieters…Lew Ford ** OFF DAY ** and Steve Pearce are also in camp as non-roster invitees. TUESDAY’S PITCHERS (3/5) PITCHING STABILITY: The Orioles return the pitchers that made 151 of 162 starts in 2012…Joe Saunders (7), Dana Eveland and Randy Wolf (2 each) made starts for the Birds last year but are not with BALTIMORE: RH Steve Johnson, RH Jair the team in 2013…Baltimore also brings back their top 13 pitchers by innings pitched from 2012…Those Jurrjens, RH Zach Clark, LH Mike Belfiore and pitchers combined to work 1241.1 of the Birds’ club record 1483.0 innings pitched last season RH Kevin Gausman (83.7%)…Saunders’ 44.2IP represents the biggest 2012 O’s workload from the non-returning group. TORONTO: LH J.A. Happ, LH Darren Oliver, RH Brad Lincoln, RH Steve Delabar, RH Esmil COMING BACK, BACK, BACK: Ten of the 12 players that hit 5 HR or more for the Birds in 2012 return nd Rogers, RH Jeremy Jeffress and RH Neil in 2013…Those 10 players combined to hit 160 of the club’s 214 total HR (2 most in team history), Wagner 74.8%…Mark Reynolds (23 HR) and Robert Andino (7 HR) are the two players that are not back in 2013. WEDNESDAY (3/6) PROSPECTING: The Orioles have four of ESPN.com’s Top 100 prospects in baseball: RHP Dylan Bundy (3), RHP Kevin Gausman (26), INF Jonathan Schoop (50) and LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (100)…On On Wednesday at Ed Smith Stadium, the Baseball America’s Top 100, Bundy ranks #2 and Gausman #26. Orioles will host an exhibition game against Team Spain as they prepare for the 2013 World WBC: Adam Jones (USA), Pedro Strop and bullpen coach Bill Castro (Dominican Republic) and Baseball Classic…RH Jake Arrieta and LH Jonathan Schoop (Netherlands), and invitees Allan de San Miguel (Australia) and Chris Robinson Zach Britton are expected to pitch against Team (Canada) will take part in this year’s World Baseball Classic…Minor leaguers Jonatan Isenia Spain. (Netherlands), Rafael Moreno (Brazil) and Tim Smith (Canada) will also play for their countries. PROSPECT GAMES OFFSEASON ADDITIONS: Since the end of the 2012 season, the Orioles traded for INFs Danny A team of O’s minor league prospects is Valencia and Yamaico Navarro and OF Trayvon Robinson (later DFA)…The club claimed four players scheduled to play two games at Al Lang Field off waivers: INFs Alexi Casilla, Russ Canzler, RHP Todd Redmond and CA Luis Martinez (later in St. Petersburg: March 10 vs. Philadelphia DFA)…OF Nate McLouth was re-signed as a free agent…The O’s selected LHP T.J. McFarland in and March 14 vs. Atlanta…Tickets are $10, for the Rule 5 draft from Cleveland…RHP Zach Clark, LHP Mike Belfiore and INF Jonathan Schoop had more info, visit stpeteinternationalbaseball.com. their contracts selected…Since S.T. 2012, the O’s have added 15 new players to the 40-man roster. O’s ON THE AIR WELCOME TO THE SHOW: Pitchers on the 40-man roster in camp that were in the organization last WBAL Radio (1090 AM) will broadcast a total year but did not see major league action (3): Belfiore, Clark and Wada…Schoop is the lone position player of 16 games this spring (check schedule on in camp that was in the organization but did not play for the O’s in 2012. back of notes for full list)…WBAL will air all 162 Orioles regular season games in 2013, with NEW FACES: Pitchers in camp that were not with the organization in 2012: (2), McFarland and Redmond Joe Angel and Fred Manfra teaming up to call in addition to (6) non-roster invitees: Braddock, Hendrickson, Jurrjens, McCutchen, Russell and the action. Schlereth…Position players new to the organization (4): Canzler, Casilla, Navarro, Valencia in addition to (8) non-roster invitees: Dickerson, Gil, Ishikawa, Jackson, Martinez, Pridie, T. Robinson and Romero. O’s ON THE TUBE THE SKIPPER: Buck Showalter, a two-time Manager of the Year (1994 and 2004), returns for his fourth The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network will televise season as Orioles manager…On January 16, the club announced an extension for Showalter that will five more games from Spring Training: March 7 vs. TOR; March 14 vs. TB; March 17 vs. keep him at the helm through 2018…He has a 1078-1018 (.514) record in 14 seasons as manager of the MIN; March 23 vs. PHI; and March 27 vs. New York Yankees (313-268; 1992-95), Arizona Diamondbacks (250-236; 1998-2000), Texas Rangers NYY…ESPN will broadcast the O’s-Red Sox (319-329; 2003-2006) and Baltimore Orioles (196-185, August 2010-current)…On May 1, 2012, Showalter game on March 25…MLB Network will carry became the 58th manager in major league history to win 1,000 games…Of the previous 57 managers with opposing team’s feeds tonight and March 24 1,000 or more wins, 29 are in the Hall of Fame and 13 others are not yet eligible for induction. (Pirates). COACHING STAFF: Over the off-season, the Orioles hired Bobby Dickerson as third base coach to take BREAKDOWN vs. OPPONENTS over for the departed DeMarlo Hale…Rick Adair (pitching), Bill Castro (bullpen), Wayne Kirby (first base), Jim Presley (hitting) and John Russell (bench) return for their third years on the coaching staff. OPP. HOME ROAD TOT. BOS (5) 1-0 0-0 1-0 GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE 2012: The Birds went 11-13-6 (5-8-2 record at Ed Smith Stadium) and drew MIN (5) 1-0 0-1 1-1 106,398 for 15 home games (average of 7,093)…The 106,398 fans marked the second-highest spring NYM (1) 0-0 0-0 0-0 NYY (3) 1-0 1-0 2-0 training attendance total in franchise history (behind the 115,506 in 16 dates in 2011)…Entering 2013, the PHI (3) 0-0 0-0 0-0 O’s are 787-778-13 all-time in Spring Training, with a home attendance total of 3,682,798. PIT (6) 1-0 0-0 1-0 TB (4) 0-0 0-1 0-1 SPRING TRAINING IN SARASOTA: The Orioles are the sixth major league team to train in Sarasota TOR (5) 0-0 1-0 1-0 since the New York Giants began training in the Sun Coast city in 1924…The Giants called Sarasota home TOTAL (32) 4-0 2-2 6-2 from 1924-1927 and the Boston Red Sox trained in Sarasota from 1933-58 (with the exception of four years during World War II)…The Los Angeles Dodgers came to Sarasota for the 1959 season before the Chicago *Rained out – 2/26 @PIT White Sox began a 28-year run here (1960-97)…The Cincinnati Reds trained at Ed Smith Stadium from 1998-2009...Built in 1989, Ed Smith Stadium was the site of Michael Jordan’s transition from the NBA to professional baseball with the Chicago White Sox in 1994. MONDAY, MARCH 4 TUESDAY, MARCH 5 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 THURSDAY, MARCH 7 OFF DAY at Toronto - 1:05 vs. Spain - 1:05 vs.