The Baltimore Orioles 2012 Spring Training schedule is out and the team actually has two games on the first day. The Orioles will play split-squad games against the Tampa Bay Rays and Pittsburgh Pirates to kick things off on Monday, March 5. The rest of schedule plays out through March and the first two days of April before the regular season opens on Friday, April 6.

Full 2012 Baltimore Orioles Spring Training Schedule

Monday, March 5

Baltimore Orioles (SS) at Tampa Bay Rays, 1:05 p.m. ET

Pittsburgh Pirates at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. ET

Tuesday, March 6

Baltimore at Boston Red Sox, 1:35 p.m. ET

Wednesday, March 7

Minnesota Twins at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Thursday, March 8

Atlanta Braves at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Friday, March 9

Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 1:05 p.m. ET

Saturday, March 10

Baltimore at Philadelphia Phillies, 1:05 p.m. ET

Sunday, March 11

Boston at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Monday, March 12

Baltimore at Toronto Blue Jays, 1:05 p.m. ET

Tuesday, March 13

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Wednesday, March 14

Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Thursday, March 15

Baltimore at Detroit Tigers, 1:05 p.m. ET

Friday, March 16

Baltimore at Minnesota Twins (SS), 1:05 p.m. ET

Saturday, March 17

Boston (SS) at Baltimore (SS), 1:05 p.m. ET

Baltimore (SS) at Boston (SS), 1:35 p.m. ET

Sunday, March 18

Baltimore (SS) at Atlanta Braves, 1:05 p.m. ET

New York Yankees at Baltimore (SS), 7:05 p.m. ET

Tuesday, March 20

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Wednesday, March 21

Toronto Blue Jays at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Thursday, March 22

Baltimore at Minnesota, 1:05 p.m. ET

Friday, March 23

Boston at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Saturday, March 24

Washington Nationals at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Sunday, March 25

Baltimore at Philadelphia (SS), 1:05 p.m. ET

Monday, March 26

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, TBD

Tuesday, March 27

Minnesota at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Wednesday, March 28

Baltimore at Toronto, 1:05 p.m. ET

Thursday, March 29

Baltimore at New York Yankees, 7:05 p.m. ET

Friday, March 30

Detroit at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Saturday, March 31

Baltimore at Pittsburgh (SS), TBD

Sunday, April 1

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. ET

Source:

Orioles Main Site

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BOSTON (CBS) – The Baltimore Orioles may be interested in hiring Red Sox bench coach Demarlo Hale as their third base coach, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

Hale is still under contract with the Red Sox, but his future with the team won’t be clear until the Red Sox hire a new manager.

If he signs with Baltimore, the 50-year-old Hale would be reunited with O’s manager Buck Showalter. He spent three years with the skipper while in Texas from 2003-2005.

Hale served as the bench coach in Boston for the last two seasons, and the team’s third base coach under Terry Francona from 2006-2009.

The Baltimore Orioles will introduce Dan
Duquette on Tuesday as the team’s executive vice president of
baseball operations, the team said on Monday.

Duquette, 53, the general manager of the Boston Red Sox
from 1994 through 2002, replaces Andy MacPhail as the Orioles’
top baseball executive.

The Orioles, who finished last in the American League East
with a 69-93 record in 2011, have not have a winning season
since 1997.

Duquette had been running a baseball academy in
Massachusetts since leaving the Red Sox.

 

The Baltimore Orioles hired Dan Duquette as general manager, a position he filled with the
Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox before leaving Major League
Baseball in 2002.

Duquette will be introduced as GM and executive vice
president of baseball operations at a press conference tomorrow,
the Orioles said today on their Twitter feed. The 53-year-old
Duquette will replace Andy MacPhail, who stepped down last month.

The Orioles haven’t had a winning record in 14 years. They
started 6-1 last season and finished 69-93, last in the American
League East division.

Duquette served as GM of the Red Sox from 1994 to 2002,
with Boston reaching the playoffs three times and advancing past
the opening round in 1999. The team had a winning record in all
but two years under Duquette and snapped an 86-year World Series
Championship drought in 2004, with a team largely comprised of
his signings.

Duquette acquired outfielder Manny Ramirez and pitcher Tim Wakefield via free agency, and traded for catcher Jason Varitek
and pitchers Derek Lowe and Pedro Martinez. He also drafted
shortstop Nomar Garciaparra (first round, 1994), pitcher Carl Pavano (13th round, 1994), infielder David Eckstein (19th round,
1997), first baseman Kevin Youkilis (eighth round, 2001) and
pitcher Jon Lester (second round, 2002).

Duquette served as general manager with the Expos from 1991
to 1994, signing future nine-time All-Star outfielder Vladimir Guerrero as an amateur free agent and traded Delino DeShields to
the Los Angeles Dodgers for a 22-year-old Martinez, who won a Cy
Young Award with the team in 1997 before Duquette brought him to
Boston.

Duquette served as director of baseball operations for the
Israeli Baseball League after being fired by the Red Sox in 2002.
His cousin, Jim Duquette, was general manager of the New York
Mets in 2004 and vice president of baseball operations with the
Orioles in 2005 and 2006.

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Eben Novy-Williams in New York at
enovywilliam@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Michael Sillup at
msillup@bloomberg.net

Monday November 7, 2011

If all goes according to plan, Dan Duquette will be the president of baseball operations for the Baltimore Orioles today.

Multiple news reports, including one by the Associated Press, say that Duquette has signed a three-year contract to run the Orioles’ baseball operations.

But Duquette’s lawyer, Anthony, A. Froio, told the Eagle Sunday night that while it isn’t accurate that Duquette has signed, it is close.

“We’re working on final details,” Froio said.

Duquette, 53, had his first interview with the Orioles on Friday before returning home to Massachusetts. He returned on Saturday for a second interview and stayed overnight in Baltimore.

The Dalton native actually tweeted that he spent Sunday morning going to mass at St. Jude’s Shrine in Baltimore. He stayed over again Sunday night.

Froio, managing partner of the Boston law firm Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, said the final details were more dotting I’s and crossing T’s than major issues.

Froio has been representing Duquette since he was hired as the general manager of the Boston Red Sox in 1994. Froio is also the general counsel for the Dan Duquette Sports Academy in Hinsdale.

Duquette has not worked in a major league front office since being let go by the Boston Red Sox in 2002. During that time, he has run the Sports Academy and owned the Pittsfield Dukes of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.

That role did keep him connected

to baseball, as he was involved in helping select college-age players for the team.

Pitcher Frank Herrmann of the Cleveland Indians played for the first Dukes team, while outfielder Alex Hassan and first baseman Matt Adams are former Dukes who are prospects with the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals, respectively.

Duquette takes over for Andy MacPhail, who stepped aside in October after nearly five seasons running the Orioles. Baltimore has had losing records for 14 consecutive seasons, and that will be what Duquette will attempt to turn around.

He was the general manager of the Red Sox from 1994-2002 and was not retained by the new ownership group led by John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino.

Prior to joining the Red Sox, Duquette was the general manager of the Montreal Expos. He actually joined the Expos in 1987 as director of player development. Duquette replaced Dave Dombrowski as general manager in 1991 and stayed with the Expos until taking his “dream job” in Boston in 1994.

Duquette was the second candidate to receive multiple interviews. Tony LaCava of the Toronto Blue Jays elected to stay with the Blue Jays.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.