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Tillman earns valuable experience

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 02:16:00 +0000

Scrounging for positive signs wasn't easy in the midst of a 98-loss season by the Orioles, but one of them was how prospects like Chris Tillman got much-needed exposure.

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Three plead guilty to stealing Baltimore Orioles' Cal Ripken Jr. monument

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:41:24 +0000

Three more men have pleaded guilty in the theft of Cal Ripken Jr.'s monument from Camden Yards.

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O's players hit the free-agent market

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 23:16:00 +0000

The first wave of Orioles players hit the free-agency market on Thursday, as Mark Hendrickson, Danys Baez, Melvin Mora and Chad Moeller wasted no time and filed, thus taking care of Baltimore's entire list of pending free agents.

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Orioles Top Prospect No. 13: L.J. Hoes

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:10:21 +0000

Coming into the 2008 season, Jerome Hoes was a UNC commit, with a very strong verbal agreement to play with the Tar Heels. He was part of a stellar recruiting class that included flame-throwers and fellow top draft picks Tim Melville and Jason Knapp. Luckily for the Orioles, all it took was $490,000 to sway Hoes away from the collegiate ranks and to a professional career. Hoes was a two-way player at St. John's College, featuring a upper 80's fastball on the mound, and flashing multiple tools in the field and at the plate. Prior to the '08 draft, Hoes was 47th ranked player available and the 8th ranked outfielder. Hoes has done very little in his one and a half years with the organization to diminish the Orioles view of him, and if he continues on his current pace, he could find himself replacing a soon-to-be Orioles legend. Begin Slideshow

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O's hope to re-sign two free agents

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Following a disappointing 98-loss campaign, the Orioles will have plenty of work to do this offseason if they hope to be competitive again in 2010. But not too much of that work will come in the way of their own free agents.

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Man admits stealing Ripken monument

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 23:12:00 +0000

A young man pled guilty in a Baltimore court Wednesday to stealing a Cal Ripken Jr. monument from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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Man pleads guilty to stealing monument dedicated to Cal Ripken

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:48:07 +0000

One of four young men accused of stealing a monument to Baltimore Orioles great Cal Ripken has pleaded guilty to theft.

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Man pleads guilty to stealing Ripken monument

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:34:53 +0000

BALTIMORE (AP) -- One of four young men accused of stealing a monument to Baltimore Orioles great Cal Ripken has pleaded guilty to theft.

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Trio of Orioles elects to file for free agency

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:15:00 +0000

Three Orioles refused an outright assignment to Triple-A Norfolk and instead elected to file for free agency on Tuesday.

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Orioles decline option on Mora

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:50:52 +0000

The Orioles have declined their $8 million option on Melvin Mora, allowing Baltimore's longest-tenured player to become eligible for free agency. Mora, 37, came to the Orioles in a 2000 trade with the New York Mets. He played 1,256 games for Baltimore, including 807 at third base - the second-most in franchise history behind Brooks Robinson. Mora's best season was 2004, when he hit .340 with 27 homers and 104 RBIs. He receives a $1 million buyout.

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Baltimore declines option on third baseman Mora

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:08:19 +0000

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The Orioles have declined their 2010 option on Melvin Mora, allowing Baltimore's longest-tenured player to become a free agent.

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No option: Baltimore Orioles' 3B Melvin Mora to become free agent

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:05:08 +0000

The Orioles have declined their 2010 option on Melvin Mora, allowing Baltimore's longest-tenured player to become a free agent.

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Baltimore Orioles Top Prospect No. 14: Pedro Florimon Jr.

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:32:17 +0000

You have to go back a good long ways to find a guy who made as big a jump from nobody to somebody like Pedro Florimon Jr. did in 2009. For starters, the scrawny shortstop didn't even make the mentionables in Baseball America's 2009 Prospect Handbook. He also came into the season coming off a year in which he hit .223 with zero home runs, only 27 walks and nearly 100 strikeouts. And that doesn't even count his 21 errors in 81 games. And yet, here he is, Pedro Florimon, one of the organization's breakout players of 2009, and Orioles top prospect #14. Begin Slideshow

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