BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Ed Smith Stadium 2700 12th Street Sarasota, FL 34237 BALTIMORE ORIOLES SPRING TRAINING NOTES Thursday, March 27, 2014 Ed Smith Stadium Sarasota, FL BALTIMORE ORIOLES (13-8-4) vs. TAMPA BAY RAYS (15-6-1) 7:05 PM ET TONIGHT’S GAME GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE SLATE: The Orioles have 30 games scheduled this spring, with 15 in Sarasota The Orioles wrap up the 2014 Grapefruit and 15 on the road…The Orioles will wrap up Spring Training with an exhibition game in Norfolk, VA League slate with a night game against the against their Triple-A club on March 29. Tampa Bay Rays…The clubs tied in a night game in Port Charlotte last GETTING STARTED: The Orioles opened the exhibition schedule with 61 players on their major league night…RH Ubaldo Jimenez will get the camp roster (21 non-roster invitees)…24 players from the current 40-man roster were in major league camp nod in the Spring Training finale for the with the O’s last spring. Birds, while RH Alex Cobb takes the hill VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: Ed Smith Stadium is among the leading vote getters in a USA Today poll for the Rays. ranking the top Spring Training stadiums in the US…Voting concludes March 24…Fans can vote by visiting THANK YOU FANS! http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-spring-training-facility/. Entering tonight’s game, the Orioles have COACHING STAFF: Over the off-season, the Orioles hired Dave Wallace as pitching coach and Dom drawn 81,210 fans for their 11 home Chiti as bullpen coach…Bobby Dickerson (third base) and Einar Diaz (assistant hitting) return for their games (three home rainouts) for an second years, while Wayne Kirby (first base), Jim Presley (hitting) and John Russell (bench) return for average of 7,383 fans, which would set a their fourth years on the coaching staff. new club mark for highest spring average…The previous mark was 7,219, TOGETHER AGAIN: With the signing of free agent RH Ubaldo Jimenez and non-roster invitee INF set in 2011following the renovation of Ed Alexi Casilla, the Orioles have reunited a pair of little league teammates…The pair played together in San Smith Stadium. Cristobal, Dominican Republic from ages 11-14. POPULAR PLACE WELCOME BACK: Pitchers on the 40-man that saw regular season action for Baltimore in 2013 (14): Ed Smith Stadium finished sixth in USA Belfiore, Britton, Chen, Gausman, Gonzalez, Hunter, Johnson, Matusz, McFarland, Norris, O’Day, Patton, Today’s online fan poll of the top Spring Stinson and Tillman…Returning Baltimore position players on the 40-man roster that played for the O’s in Training stadium in the country…Ed 2013 (12): Clevenger, Davis, Flaherty, Hardy, Jones, Machado, Markakis, Pearce, Reimold, Schoop, Urrutia Smith Stadium finished behind Charlotte and Wieters…Alexi Casilla is in camp as non-roster invitee. Sports Park (Port Charlotte, FL), Goodyear Ballpark (Goodyear, AZ), Salt PROSPECTING: The Orioles have five of ESPN.com’s Top 100 prospects: RHP Kevin Gausman (23), River Fields (Scottsdale, AZ), McKechnie RHP Dylan Bundy (31), RHP Hunter Harvey (38), Eduardo Rodriguez (43), and INF Jonathan Schoop Field (Bradenton, FL) and Bright House (86)…MLB.com has Bundy (20), Gausman (31) and Rodriguez (68) ranked in their Top 100…Baseball th th th Field (Clearwater, FL) America has the same trio on their list, with Bundy ranked 15 , Gausman ranked 20 and Rodriguez 65 . YESTERDAY’S GAMES OFFSEASON ADDITIONS: Since the end of the 2013 season, the Orioles traded for four players (INF Jemile Weeks, OF David Lough, CA Johnny Monell and RHP Brad Brach)…The club signed seven The Orioles beat the Red Sox in Fort players as free agents (OF Nelson Cruz, LH Kelvin De La Cruz, RH Edgmer Escalona, RH Ubaldo Myers in an afternoon affair, before tying Jimenez, OF Francisco Peguero, RH Ryan Webb and RH Suk-min Yoon)…The Birds selected INF the Tampa Bay Rays in Port Charlotte last Michael Almanzar in the Rule 5 draft from Boston…LH Tim Berry and CA Michael Ohlman had their night. contracts selected. THURSDAY’S PITCHERS VS. TB UNITED NATIONS: The Orioles have players from nine different countries in camp: Cuba (Urrutia), ORIOLES: RH Ubaldo Jimenez. Curacao (Schoop), Dominican Republic (Almanzar, Casilla, Castillo, Cruz, De La Cruz, Jimenez and RAYS: RH Alex Cobb and TBA. Peguero), South Korea (Yoon), Mexico (Aceves and M. Gonzalez), Puerto Rico (DeJesus), Taiwan (Chen), United States of America (several) and Venezuela (Escalona, Gonzalez and Rodriguez). SATURDAY’S PITCHERS VS. NORF ORIOLES: RH Suk-min Yoon, Mike WELCOME TO THE SHOW: LHP Tim Berry is the only pitcher on the 40-man roster in camp that Wright and TBA. pitched in the organization last year but did not see major league action (Dylan Bundy was injured)…CA Michael Ohlman is the lone position player in camp that was in the organization but did not play for the O’s TIDES: RH Tyler Wilson, RH Zach in 2013. Davies, LH Jake Pettit and TBA. GO TO THE MONITOR NEW FACES: Pitchers in camp that were not with the organization in 2013: (6) Yoon, Jimenez, Brach, Webb, Escalona and De La Cruz in addition to (6) non-roster invitees: Aceves, Additon, Alderson, Castillo, Five Orioles spring training games had Huntzinger and Meek…Position players new to the organization (6): Almanzar, Cruz, Lough, Monell, instant replay: March 5 @MIN, March 7 Peguero and Weeks in addition to (8) non-roster invitees: Berry, Borbon, DeJesus, Gonzalez, Marrero, Paul, vs. PHI, March 8 vs. BOS, March 14 Phelps and Young. @MIN and March 25 @MIN. THE SKIPPER: Buck Showalter, a two-time Manager of the Year (1994 and 2004), returns for his fifth O’s ON THE TUBE season as Orioles manager…He has a 1163-1095 (.515) record in 15 seasons as manager of the Yankees The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (313-268; 1992-95), Diamondbacks (250-236; 1998-2000), Rangers (319-329; 2003-2006) and Orioles (281- (MASN) will broadcast seven Spring 262, August 2010-current)…On May 10, 2013, Showalter became the 49th manager in MLB history to win Training games (March 1, 7, 8, 15, 17, 19 1,100 games…His 281 wins as Orioles manager are fifth-most in club history behind Earl Weaver (1480), and 24)…MLB Network will carry three Paul Richards (517), Hank Bauer (407) and Johnny Oates (291). additional games (March 2, 4 and 26). LAST SPRING: In their fourth season in Sarasota, the Orioles drew a franchise and Sarasota spring training O’s ON THE AIR attendance record 120,455 fans for 17 home games (average of 7,086)…The old record was the 115,506 fans WBAL Radio (1090 AM) will broadcast in 16 dates in 2011…The Orioles sold out nine of their 17 home games in 2013…The 7,086 average was the 14 games this spring (full schedule on third-highest average in club history…The Birds went 19-9-4 during the exhibition schedule, including a 10- back of notes)…WBAL will air all 162 4-3 record at Ed Smith Stadium…The 19 wins tied for the second-most wins in a spring for the Birds (also O’s regular season games, with Joe Angel 1969), one win behind the 20 spring wins by the 2002 Orioles…Entering 2014, the O’s are 806-787-17 all- and Fred Manfra calling the action. time in Spring Training, with a home attendance total of 3,803,253. BREAKDOWN vs. OPPONENTS OPP. HOME ROAD TOT. SPRING TRAINING IN SARASOTA: The Orioles are the sixth major league team to train in Sarasota ATL (1) 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 since the New York Giants began training in the Sun Coast city in 1924…The Giants called Sarasota home BOS (5) 1-1-0 2-1-0 3-2-0 from 1924-1927 and the Boston Red Sox trained in Sarasota from 1933-58 (with the exception of four years MIN (4) 0-1-0 1-1-1 1-2-1 during World War II)…The Los Angeles Dodgers came to Sarasota for the 1959 season before the Chicago NYY (3) 1-0-0 1-1-0 2-1-0 White Sox began a 28-year run here (1960-97)…The Cincinnati Reds trained at Ed Smith Stadium from PHI (2) 1-1-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 1998-2009...Ed Smith Stadium was built in 1989 and renovated prior to the 2011 spring season. PIT (4) 1-0-1 2-0-0 3-0-1 TB (4) 0-1-0 1-0-2 1-1-2 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: 20 years ago, Ed Smith Stadium was the site of Michael Jordan’s transition TOR (2) 1-0-0 0-1-0 1-1-0 from the NBA to professional baseball with the White Sox in 1994…That fall, Orioles Assistant Athletic TOTAL (26) 6-4-1 7-4-2 13-8-3 Trainer Brian Ebel served as the trainer for Jordan’s Scottsdale Scorpions club in the Arizona Fall League. THURSDAY, MARCH 27 FRIDAY, MARCH 28 SATURDAY, MARCH 29 SUNDAY, MARCH 30 Workout Day – Oriole Park Vs. Tampa Bay – 7:05 OFF DAY At Norfolk (AAA) – 3:05 Media gate opens: 11:00 a.m. BAL starter: RH Ubaldo Jimenez BAL starter: RH Suk-Min Yoon Orioles clubhouse access: 1:30-2:30 TB starter: RH Alex Cobb NO CLUBHOUSE ACCESS NOR starter: RH Tyler Wilson Buck Showalter availability: 2:30 FOR MEDIA CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: Workout: 3:00-5:00 2:15-3:15 p.m.