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No option: Baltimore Orioles' 3B Melvin Mora to become free agent
No option: Baltimore Orioles' 3B Melvin Mora to become free agent
The Orioles have declined their 2010 option on Melvin Mora, allowing Baltimore's longest-tenured player to become a free agent.
Orioles decline Mora's 2010 option
Orioles decline Mora's 2010 option
baltimoresun.com — Expected move likely ends third baseman's tenure with club; 'I'll never close my doors to the Orioles.... I still have a lot of people in the Orioles organization who love me' Copyright 2009, The Baltimore Sun (more) Orioles decline Mora's 2010 option
2009 O’s Retrospective: Melvin Mora
2009 O’s Retrospective: Melvin Mora
camdencrazies.com — In part nineteen of my almost 50 part series “Better Know An Orioles” (otherwise known as 2009... Orioles Retrospective), I take a look at third-baseman Melvin Mora… THE FIGHTIN’ BASEBALL TERM EXAMPLE ! Melvin had an unexpectedly great 2008, batting .285/.342/.483 ... (more) 2009 O’s Retrospective: Melvin Mora
The End of an Era in Baltimore
The End of an Era in Baltimore
passion4baseball.blogspot.com — It wasn't hard to see this day coming as the Baltimore Orioles have declined to pick up... Melvin Mora's contract making him a free agent. It seems all but clear that Mora's tenth season with the Orioles was his last. Mora, from Venezuela, will turn 38 in 2010 and will hope to catch on with a ... (more) The End of an Era in Baltimore
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Reinstate Melvin Mora
Faith and Fear in Flushing — ... Melvin Mora is going to be a free agent. For Melvin Mora and the Mets, there is nothing but regret. Melvin Mora was the most super of supersubs in 2000 when he was deployed as our everyday shortstop once Rey Ordoñez went down to injury. Mora was a lousy shortstop. But he was Melvin Mora, hero of the 1999 stretch drive and postseason and darn good-looking player — shortstop shakiness notwithstanding — through the first two-thirds of 2000. Might have he improved in his new full-time position if given two months to straighten out? Might have he been deployed elsewhere as Steve ...

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