BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME NOTES Ed Smith Stadium • 2700 12th Street • Sarasota, FL 34237 BALTIMORE ORIOLES SPRING TRAINING NOTES Friday, March 7, 2014 • Ed Smith Stadium • Sarasota, FL BALTIMORE ORIOLES (4-2) vs. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (1-7-1) • 1:05 PM ET TODAY’S GAME GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE SLATE: The Orioles have 30 games scheduled this spring, with 15 in Sarasota The Orioles and Phillies meet in the first and 15 on the road…The Orioles will wrap up Spring Training with an exhibition game in Norfolk, VA of three spring match-ups today in against their Triple-A club on March 29. Sarasota…The Birds and Phillies will meet again March 12 in Sarasota and GETTING STARTED: The Orioles opened the exhibition schedule with 61 players on their major league March 17 in Clearwater…RH Ubaldo camp roster (21 non-roster invitees)…24 players from the current 40-man roster were in major league camp with the O’s last spring. Jimenez will make his Orioles debut this afternoon. VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN: Ed Smith Stadium is among the leading vote getters in a USA Today poll PAYING RESPECTS ranking the top Spring Training stadiums in the US…Voting concludes March 24…Fans can vote by visiting http://www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-spring-training-facility/. About 30 Orioles players, coaches and executives will leave today’s game at 3:00 COACHING STAFF: Over the off-season, the Orioles hired Dave Wallace as pitching coach and Dom to fly to Virginia for a memorial service Chiti as bullpen coach…Bobby Dickerson (third base) and Einar Diaz (assistant hitting) return for their for longtime PR director Monica Barlow, second years, while Wayne Kirby (first base), Jim Presley (hitting) and John Russell (bench) return for who passed away last Friday at age their fourth years on the coaching staff. 36…Barlow worked four and a half years after being diagnosed with cancer, TOGETHER AGAIN: With the signing of free agent RH Ubaldo Jimenez and non-roster invitee INF inspiring all who knew her…The group Alexi Casilla, the Orioles have reunited a pair of little league teammates…The pair played together in San will return to Sarasota tonight. Cristobal, Dominican Republic from ages 11-14. TODAY’S PITCHERS VS. PHI WELCOME BACK: Pitchers on the 40-man that saw regular season action for Baltimore in 2013 (14): ORIOLES: RH Ubaldo Jimenez, RH Belfiore, Britton, Chen, Gausman, Gonzalez, Hunter, Johnson, Matusz, McFarland, Norris, O’Day, Patton, Miguel Gonzalez, LH Brian Matusz and Stinson and Tillman…Returning Baltimore position players on the 40-man roster that played for the O’s in LH Eduardo Rodriguez. 2013 (12): Clevenger, Davis, Flaherty, Hardy, Jones, Machado, Markakis, Pearce, Reimold, Schoop, Urrutia and Wieters…Alexi Casilla is in camp as non-roster invitee. PHILLIES: RH A.J. Burnett, LH Jesse Biddle, RH Luis Garcia and RH Shawn PROSPECTING: The Orioles have five of ESPN.com’s Top 100 prospects: RHP Kevin Gausman (23), Camp. RHP Dylan Bundy (31), RHP Hunter Harvey (38), Eduardo Rodriguez (43), and INF Jonathan Schoop (86)…MLB.com has Bundy (20), Gausman (31) and Rodriguez (68) ranked in their Top 100…Baseball SATURDAY’S PITCHERS VS. BOSTON th th th IN SARASOTA AT 1:05 America has the same trio on their list, with Bundy ranked 15 , Gausman ranked 20 and Rodriguez 65 . ORIOLES: RH Bud Norris, RH Evan OFFSEASON ADDITIONS: Since the end of the 2013 season, the Orioles traded for four players (INF Meek and TBA. Jemile Weeks, OF David Lough, CA Johnny Monell and RHP Brad Brach)…The club signed seven RED SOX: LH Henry Owens, RH Noe players as free agents (OF Nelson Cruz, LH Kelvin De La Cruz, RH Edgmer Escalona, RH Ubaldo Ramirez, LH Tommy Layne, RH Alex Jimenez, OF Francisco Peguero, RH Ryan Webb and RH Suk-min Yoon)…The Birds selected INF Wilson and RH Dalier Hinojasa. Michael Almanzar in the Rule 5 draft from Boston…LH Tim Berry and CA Michael Ohlman had their contracts selected. SATURDAY’S PITCHERS VS. BOSTON IN FORT MYERS AT 7:05 UNITED NATIONS: The Orioles have players from nine different countries in camp: Cuba (Urrutia), Curacao (Schoop), Dominican Republic (Almanzar, Casilla, Castillo, Cruz, De La Cruz, Jimenez and ORIOLES: RH Kevin Gausman, RH Josh Peguero), South Korea (Yoon), Mexico (Aceves and M. Gonzalez), Puerto Rico (DeJesus), Taiwan (Chen), Stinson and TBA. United States of America (several) and Venezuela (Escalona, Gonzalez and Rodriguez). RED SOX: RH Brandon Workman, LH Jose Mijares, LH Andrew Miller, RH WELCOME TO THE SHOW: LHP Tim Berry is the only pitcher on the 40-man roster in camp that Brayan Villareal and RH Miguel Celestino 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 SUNDAY’S PITCHERS VS. PIT in 2013. ORIOLES: LH Wei-Yin Chen and TBA. NEW FACES: Pitchers in camp that were not with the organization in 2013: (6) Yoon, Jimenez, Brach, PIRATES: RH Edinson Volquez, RH Webb, Escalona and De La Cruz in addition to (6) non-roster invitees: Aceves, Additon, Alderson, Castillo, Brandon Cumpton, RH Jake Brigham and Huntzinger and Meek…Position players new to the organization (6): Almanzar, Cruz, Lough, Monell, RH Jay Jackson. Peguero and Weeks in addition to (8) non-roster invitees: Berry, Borbon, DeJesus, Gonzalez, Marrero, Paul, GO TO THE MONITOR Phelps and Young. Five Orioles spring training games will THE SKIPPER: Buck Showalter, a two-time Manager of the Year (1994 and 2004), returns for his fifth have instant replay: March 5 @MIN, season as Orioles manager…He has a 1163-1095 (.515) record in 15 seasons as manager of the Yankees March 7 vs. PHI, March 8 vs. BOS, March (313-268; 1992-95), Diamondbacks (250-236; 1998-2000), Rangers (319-329; 2003-2006) and Orioles (281- 14 @MIN and March 25 @MIN. 262, August 2010-current)…On May 10, 2013, Showalter became the 49th manager in MLB history to win O’s ON THE TUBE 1,100 games…His 281 wins as Orioles manager are fifth-most in club history behind Earl Weaver (1480), Paul Richards (517), Hank Bauer (407) and Johnny Oates (291). The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN) will broadcast seven Spring LAST SPRING: In their fourth season in Sarasota, the Orioles drew a franchise and Sarasota spring training Training games (March 1, 7, 8, 15, 17, 19 attendance record 120,455 fans for 17 home games (average of 7,086)…The old record was the 115,506 fans and 24)…MLB Network will carry three in 16 dates in 2011…The Orioles sold out nine of their 17 home games in 2013…The 7,086 average was the additional games (March 2, 4 and 26). third-highest average in club history…The Birds went 19-9-4 during the exhibition schedule, including a 10- 4-3 record at Ed Smith Stadium…The 19 wins tied for the second-most wins in a spring for the Birds (also BREAKDOWN vs. OPPONENTS 1969), one win behind the 20 spring wins by the 2002 Orioles…Entering 2014, the O’s are 806-787-17 all- OPP. HOME ROAD TOT. time in Spring Training, with a home attendance total of 3,803,253. ATL (1) 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 BOS (6) 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 SPRING TRAINING IN SARASOTA: The Orioles are the sixth major league team to train in Sarasota MIN (5) 0-1-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 since the New York Giants began training in the Sun Coast city in 1924…The Giants called Sarasota home NYY (3) 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 from 1924-1927 and the Boston Red Sox trained in Sarasota from 1933-58 (with the exception of four years PHI (3) 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 during World War II)…The Los Angeles Dodgers came to Sarasota for the 1959 season before the Chicago PIT (4) 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 TB (6) 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 White Sox began a 28-year run here (1960-97)…The Cincinnati Reds trained at Ed Smith Stadium from TOR (2) 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1998-2009...Ed Smith Stadium was built in 1989 and renovated prior to the 2011 spring season. TOTAL (30) 1-1-0 3-1-0 4-2-0 HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: 20 years ago, Ed Smith Stadium was the site of Michael Jordan’s transition from the NBA to professional baseball with the White Sox in 1994…That fall, Orioles Assistant Athletic Trainer Brian Ebel served as the trainer for Jordan’s Scottsdale Scorpions club in the Arizona Fall League. SATURDAY, MARCH 8 SATURDAY, MARCH 8 SUNDAY, MARCH 9 MONDAY, MARCH 10 Vs. Boston (ss) – 1:05 At Boston (ss) – 7:05 Vs. Pittsburgh – 1:05 At Pittsburgh – 1:05 BAL starter: RH Bud Norris BAL starter: RH Kevin Gausman BAL starter: LH Wei-Yin Chen BAL starter: RH Chris Tillman BOS starter: LH Henry Owens BOS starter: RH Brandon Workman PIT starter: RH Edinson Volquez PIT starter: TBA CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: CLUBHOUSE OPEN TO MEDIA: 8:15-9:15 a.m., post-game 8:15-9:15 a.m. in Sarasota, post-game 8:15-9:15 a.m., post-game 8:15-9:15 a.m.