The Baltimore Orioles

Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

 season was the 93rd baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 season in Orioles history. It involved the Orioles finishing 3rd in the American League

American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...

 East with a record of 85 wins and 77 losses.

Offseason

• December 7, 1992: Sherman Obando
  Sherman Obando
  Sherman Omar Obando Gainor is a former major league baseball player who played for the Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos. His main position was outfield, but often played as a first baseman or designated hitter...
  
   was drafted by the Orioles from the New York Yankees
  New York Yankees
  The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
  
   in the 1992 rule 5 draft
  Rule 5 draft
  The Rule 5 draft is a Major League Baseball player draft that occurs each year in December, at the annual Winter Meeting of general managers. The Rule 5 draft aims to prevent teams from stockpiling too many young players on their minor league affiliate teams when other teams would be willing to...
  
  .
• December 11, 1992: Billy Ripken
  Billy Ripken
  William Oliver Ripken is an American radio personality for XM Satellite Radio, a studio analyst for MLB Network's "MLB Tonight," and is a former infielder in Major League Baseball from –...
  
   was released by the Orioles.
• December 14, 1992: Scott Coolbaugh
  Scott Coolbaugh
  Scott Robert Coolbaugh is an American former baseball player. Coolbaugh played Major League Baseball from to for the Texas Rangers and San Diego Padres and in for the St. Louis Cardinals. He also played two seasons in Japan for the Hanshin Tigers in and , and continued to play in the minor...
  
   was signed as a free agent by the Orioles.

Regular season

The Orioles hosted the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It was the 64th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars

All-star game

An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league, except in the circumstances of professional sports systems in which a democratic voting system is used...

 of the American League

American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...

 (AL) and National League

National League

The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League , is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional...

 (NL) at Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Oriole Park at Camden Yards is a Major League Baseball ballpark located in Baltimore, Maryland. Home field of the Baltimore Orioles, it is the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s, and remains one of the most highly praised. The park was...

. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 9-3. Orioles pitcher Mike Mussina was voted onto the All-Star team, but did not pitch in the game due to his injury.

There was a controversial incident towards the end of the game when Mussina chose to warm-up in the bullpen, despite the fact AL manager Cito Gaston

Cito Gaston

Clarence Edwin "Cito" Gaston is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and manager. His major league career as a player lasted from 1967–1978, most notably for the San Diego Padres and the Atlanta Braves...

 had told him prior to the game that he would not pitch during the contest because of his injury issues and in case the game went into extra innings. Orioles fans believed Mussina was warming up in preparation to come in and pitch the ninth inning and when Gaston put Duane Ward

Duane Ward

Roy Duane Ward was a Major League Baseball reliever during the late 1980s and early 1990s.Ward went to school and made his early athletic mark in Farmington, New Mexico, a small oil and gas city, and one known for its amateur baseball programs...

 in to pitch the ninth inning, the fans at Camden Yards spent the rest of the game booing Gaston very loudly and many chanted the popular slogan saying "Cito Sucks" which could be heard years later in Baltimore anytime Baltimore played Toronto. Gaston was never treated well by Baltimore fans for the rest of his managerial career and he was subject to death threats for not pitching Mussina in the game. Many believe Mussina threw on his own as a way of publicly showing up Gaston because he was angry at not pitching in the game.

Notable transactions

• June 29, 1993: Mike Bielecki
  Mike Bielecki
  Michael Joseph Bielecki was a professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1984–1997.-Pittsburgh Pirates:...
  
   was signed as a free agent by the Orioles.
• August 15, 1993: Mike Bielecki was released by the Orioles.
• September 30, 1993: Scott Coolbaugh was released by the Orioles.

Roster

1993 Baltimore Orioles
Roster
Pitchers		Catchers Infielders		Outfielders Other batters		Manager Coaches (third base) (bench)

Starters by position

Note: Pos = position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Pos	Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
C		126	419	80	130	28	0	29	82	.310	1
1B		146	450	54	123	27	0	10	60	.273	2
2B		145	485	64	122	20	4	4	47	.252	12
3B		71	244	30	48	7	0	10	25	.197	0
SS		162	641	87	165	26	3	24	90	.257	1
LF		142	560	87	147	36	8	13	66	.263	24
CF		131	527	72	132	31	3	14	75	.250	3
RF		148	581	81	165	27	5	4	72	.284	21
DH		118	416	64	130	22	0	20	78	.313	0

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs scored; H = Hits; 2B = Doubles; 3B = Triples; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; AVG = Batting average; SB = Stolen bases

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	SB
	85	260	40	78	15	0	2	23	.300	1
	64	152	32	45	11	1	6	23	.296	1
	53	79	18	18	5	0	2	9	.228	2
	38	87	8	15	3	0	0	9	.172	0
	33	105	10	32	8	0	3	19	.305	4
	33	117	24	38	9	0	6	21	.325	0
	31	92	8	25	2	0	3	15	.272	0
	30	113	8	20	3	0	1	9	.177	0
	22	54	7	14	2	0	4	12	.259	0
	18	47	1	10	1	0	0	3	.213	0
	10	24	1	7	2	0	0	1	.292	1
	10	15	1	1	1	0	0	3	.067	0
	9	24	8	5	1	0	2	3	.208	0
	8	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0
	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0

Starting pitchers

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; GS = Games started; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	IP	R	ER	BB	K
	13	14	3.39	34	34	220.1	92	83	86	171
	8	10	4.94	32	31	178.2	104	98	79	78
	14	6	4.46	25	25	167.2	84	83	44	117
	10	10	5.75	29	28	166.0	112	106	74	80
	12	9	3.43	25	25	152.0	63	58	38	90
	5	6	6.51	17	17	85.2	62	62	49	49

Relief pitchers

Note: W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; G = Games pitched; SV = Saves; IP = Innings pitched; R = Runs allowed; ER = Earned runs allowed; BB = Walks allowed; K = Strikeouts

Player	W	L	ERA	G	SV	IP	R	ER	BB	K
	0	2	1.60	50	29	45.0	9	8	18	44
	5	4	3.23	45	4	100.1	39	36	51	68
	6	7	3.83	70	3	96.1	47	41	44	50
	7	5	4.91	48	0	88.0	54	48	25	45
	2	1	2.15	55	2	50.1	18	12	21	29
	3	2	6.55	34	4	33.0	25	24	25	39
	0	1	4.58	11	0	19.2	12	10	10	16
	0	0	5.94	5	0	16.2	11	11	7	7
	0	0	3.86	5	0	11.2	5	5	4	8
	0	0	9.82	3	0	7.1	8	8	1	6
	0	0	0.00	2	0	3.0	0	0	2	3
	0	0	0.00	1	0	1.0	0	0	1	0

Farm system