BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Ed Smith Stadium 2700 12th Street Sarasota, FL 34237 BALTIMORE ORIOLES SPRING TRAINING NOTES Monday, February 25, 2013 Ed Smith Stadium Sarasota, FL BALTIMORE ORIOLES (2-0) vs. NEW YORK YANKEES (1-1) 1:05 PM ET TODAY’S GAME YESTERDAY’S GAME: The Orioles won their road opener over Toronto, 5-4…Jair Jurrjens made the start and allowed one run over 2.0 innings in his O’s debut…Steve Pearce (HR, 3RBI), Lew Ford (2R), and The Orioles host AL East rival New York for their first of three games against the Yankees Danny Valencia (2B) led the Birds offense with two hits apiece…Mike Belfiore (2.0IP, K) earned the win this spring. LH Brian Matusz will make his out of the bullpen…Kevin Gausman also made his O’s spring debut (1.2IP, H, ER, 2BB, 2K). first spring start for the Birds. The O’s will play the Yankees in Tampa as they split the GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE SLATE: The Orioles have 33 scheduled games, with 17 in Sarasota and 16 on squad on Wednesday. New York makes a return the road against Major League opponents…There are also exhibition games scheduled against Team Spain trip to Ed Smith on March 27. of this year’s World Baseball Classic on March 6 and State College of Florida on March 29…The O’s will split the squad twice, February 27 and March 17, playing two games on each of those dates. TODAY’S PITCHERS (2/25) GETTING STARTED: The Orioles begin the exhibition schedule with 61 players on their major league BALTIMORE: LH Brian Matusz, RH Tommy camp roster, including 21 non-roster invitees…27 players from the current 40-man roster were in Major Hunter, LH Mark Hendrickson, RH Daniel McCutchen & RH Pedro Strop League camp with the O’s last spring…In 2009, the Orioles had a franchise record 67 players in camp. NEW YORK (AL): LH Vidal Nuno, RH WELCOME BACK: Pitchers on the 40-man that saw regular season action for Baltimore in 2012 (15): Bryan Mitchell, RH Corey Black & RH Shane Arrieta, Ayala, Britton, Bundy, Chen, Gonzalez, Hammel, Hunter, J. Johnson, S. Johnson, Matusz, O’Day, Greene 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, TUESDAY’S PITCHERS (2/26) Hardy, Hoes, Jones, Machado, Markakis, McLouth, Reimold, Roberts, Teagarden and Wieters…Lew Ford BALTIMORE: RH Chris Tillman, RH Todd and Steve Pearce are also in camp as non-roster invitees. Redmond, RH Steve Johnson & RH Dylan Bundy 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 PITTSBURGH: LH Wandy Rodriguez, LH the team in 2013…Baltimore also brings back their top 13 pitchers by innings pitched from 2012…Those Andy Oliver, RH Vin Mazzaro, RH Bryan pitchers combined to work 1241.1 of the Birds’ club record 1483.0 innings pitched last season Morris, RH Hunter Strickland, RH Duke (83.7%)…Saunders’ 44.2IP represents the biggest 2012 O’s workload from the non-returning group. Welker & LH Mike Zagurski COMING BACK, BACK, BACK: Ten of the 12 players that hit 5 HR or more for the Birds in 2012 return WEDNESDAY’S PITCHERS (2/27) nd in 2013…Those 10 players combined to hit 160 of the club’s 214 total HR (2 most in team history), BALTIMORE (1:05): RH Jake Arrieta & TBA 74.8%…Mark Reynolds (23 HR) and Robert Andino (7 HR) are the two players that are not back in 2013. NEW YORK (AL): LH Nik Turley, RH Matt PROSPECTING: The Orioles have four of ESPN.com’s Top 100 prospects in baseball: RHP Dylan Bundy Daley, RH Preston Claiborne, LH Josh Spence, (3), RHP Kevin Gausman (26), INF Jonathan Schoop (50) and LHP Eduardo Rodriguez (100)…On RH Cody Eppley & RH Mark Montgomery Baseball America’s Top 100, Bundy ranks #2 and Gausman #26. BALTIMORE (7:05): LH Zach Britton & WBC: Adam Jones (USA), Pedro Strop and bullpen coach Bill Castro (D.R.) and Jonathan Schoop TBA (NED), and invitees Allan de San Miguel (AUS) and Chris Robinson (CAN) will take part in this year’s BOSTON: LH Franklin Morales, LH Drake World Baseball Classic…Minor leaguers Jonatan Isenia (NED), Rafael Moreno (BRA) and Tim Smith Britton, RH Koji Uehara, RH Daniel Bard, RH (CAN) will also play for their countries. Anthony Carter, RH Pedro Beato & RH Oscar Villarreal OFFSEASON ADDITIONS: Since the end of the 2012 season, the Orioles traded for INFs Danny Valencia and Yamaico Navarro and OF Trayvon Robinson (later DFA)…The club claimed four players PROSPECT GAMES off waivers: INFs Alexi Casilla, Russ Canzler, RHP Todd Redmond and CA Luis Martinez (later A team of O’s minor league prospects is DFA)…OF Nate McLouth was re-signed as a free agent…The O’s selected LHP T.J. McFarland in scheduled to play two games at Al Lang Field the Rule 5 draft from Cleveland…RHP Zach Clark, LHP Mike Belfiore and INF Jonathan Schoop had in St. Petersburg: March 10 vs. Philadelphia their contracts selected…Since S.T. 2012, the O’s have added 15 new players to the 40-man roster. and March 14 vs. Atlanta…Tickets are $10, for more info, visit stpeteinternationalbaseball.com. WELCOME TO THE SHOW: Pitchers on the 40-man roster in camp that were in the organization last year but did not see major league action (3): Belfiore, Clark and Wada…Schoop is the lone position player O’s ON THE AIR in camp that was in the organization but did not play for the O’s in 2012. WBAL Radio (1090 AM) will broadcast a total NEW FACES: Pitchers in camp that were not with the organization in 2012: (2), McFarland and Redmond of 16 games this spring (check schedule on in addition to (6) non-roster invitees: Braddock, Hendrickson, Jurrjens, McCutchen, Russell and back of notes for full list)…WBAL will air all Schlereth…Position players new to the organization (4): Canzler, Casilla, Navarro, Valencia in addition to 162 Orioles regular season games in 2013, with Joe Angel and Fred Manfra teaming up to call (8) non-roster invitees: Dickerson, Gil, Ishikawa, Jackson, Martinez, Pridie, T. Robinson and Romero. the action. THE SKIPPER: Buck Showalter, a two-time Manager of the Year (1994 and 2004), returns for his fourth O’s ON THE TUBE season as Orioles manager…On January 16, the club announced an extension for Showalter that will keep him at the helm through 2018…He has a 1078-1018 (.514) record in 14 seasons as manager of the The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network will televise New York Yankees (313-268; 1992-95), Arizona Diamondbacks (250-236; 1998-2000), Texas Rangers six games from Spring Training: February 25 (319-329; 2003-2006) and Baltimore Orioles (196-185, August 2010-current)…On May 1, 2012, Showalter vs. NYY; March 7 vs. TOR; March 14 vs. TB; became the 58th manager in major league history to win 1,000 games…Of the previous 57 managers with March 17 vs. MIN; March 23 vs. PHI; and 1,000 or more wins, 29 are in the Hall of Fame and 13 others are not yet eligible for induction. March 27 vs. NYY…ESPN will broadcast the O’s-Red Sox game on March 25…MLB COACHING STAFF: Over the off-season, the Orioles hired Bobby Dickerson as third base coach to take Network will carry opposing team’s feeds on over for the departed DeMarlo Hale…Rick Adair (pitching), Bill Castro (bullpen), Wayne Kirby (first February 27 (Boston) and March 24 (Pirates). base), Jim Presley (hitting) and John Russell (bench) return for their third years on the coaching staff. BREAKDOWN vs. OPPONENTS GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE 2012: The Birds went 11-13-6 (5-8-2 record at Ed Smith Stadium) and drew OPP. HOME ROAD TOT. 106,398 for 15 home games (average of 7,093)…The 106,398 fans marked the second-highest spring BOS (5) 0-0 0-0 0-0 training attendance total in franchise history (behind the 115,506 in 16 dates in 2011)…Entering 2013, the MIN (5) 1-0 0-0 1-0 O’s are 787-778-13 all-time in Spring Training, with a home attendance total of 3,682,798. NYM (1) 0-0 0-0 0-0 NYY (3) 0-0 0-0 0-0 SPRING TRAINING IN SARASOTA: The Orioles are the sixth major league team to train in Sarasota PHI (3) 0-0 0-0 0-0 since the New York Giants began training in the Sun Coast city in 1924…The Giants called Sarasota home PIT (7) 0-0 0-0 0-0 from 1924-1927 and the Boston Red Sox trained in Sarasota from 1933-58 (with the exception of four years TB (4) 0-0 0-0 0-0 during World War II)…The Los Angeles Dodgers came to Sarasota for the 1959 season before the Chicago TOR (5) 0-0 1-0 1-0 White Sox began a 28-year run here (1960-97)…The Cincinnati Reds trained at Ed Smith Stadium from TOTAL (33) 1-0 1-0 2-0 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.