The Orioles introduced Monday that they’ve employed five-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner Adam Jones as a particular advisor to normal supervisor Mike Elias and a neighborhood ambassador for the staff. Jones will advise Elias on numerous points of baseball operations and be a useful resource for the remainder of the baseball ops employees. He’ll even be a visitor coach in spring coaching and take part in/advocate for numerous Orioles neighborhood initiatives (e.g. the staff’s adopt-a-school program and Reviving Baseball in Internal Cities program). Throughout his enjoying profession, Jones was a three-time nominee for MLB’s Roberto Clemente Award, recognizing his in depth neighborhood efforts in Baltimore.
“I’m grateful for the Orioles relationships I’ve fashioned since my retirement, which have led us to this thrilling partnership,” Jones stated in an announcement inside at this time’s press launch. “Having the chance to be across the sport that I like, whereas additionally studying the operations aspect of baseball from among the finest normal managers is actually an honor. I’m joyful to be a useful resource for the Orioles group and can supply every thing I’ve realized from previous expertise to assist the staff succeed. Baltimore has all the time meant a lot to me, and this distinctive position will enable me to proceed giving again to the neighborhood I like. It is a particular alternative and I’m desperate to embrace it totally.”
Jones, 39, spent 11 seasons in an Orioles uniform after coming to Baltimore in a lopsided commerce that shipped lefty Erik Bedard to Seattle. The previous top-50 draft alternative and prime prospect wasted little time establishing himself within the Orioles’ lineup and rapidly cemented himself as one of the vital in style and productive gamers of a whole era of Orioles baseball.
From 2008-18, Jones batted .279/.319/.459 with 263 house runs, 305 doubles, 27 triples and 90 stolen bases because the Orioles’ on a regular basis middle fielder. The 2012-14 seasons marked a private peak for Jones and a rebirth for Orioles baseball, which Jones helped to gasoline. Jones slashed a mixed .284/.321/.489 and made three straight All-Star groups in that point, lacking solely three whole video games over that stretch of three seasons. He garnered MVP votes in every of the three seasons.
Concurrently, the Orioles shook off 4 straight last-place finishes to surge into perennial postseason rivalry. The 2012 O’s received 93 video games, completed second within the AL East and made a run to that 12 months’s ALCS. The O’s had a successful report in ’13 however fell shy of the playoffs earlier than successful the division with a 96-win season in 2014. As they did in 2012, Baltimore superior to the ALCS. The 2016 Orioles returned to the playoffs but once more, with the ultra-durable Jones once more enjoying a key position. From 2012-16, no American League staff received extra video games than the Orioles, and Jones was arguably the face of the membership alongside the way in which.
Jones completed out his enjoying profession with a 2019 stint in Arizona and a 2020-21 run with NPB’s Orix Buffaloes over in Japan. He’ll now return to his longtime MLB house in a brand new position that continues to construct his legacy with the group.
“Adam was an incredible consultant of the Orioles on and off the sphere whereas he was a participant,” Elias stated inside at this time’s press launch. “We’re excited to formally welcome him again to our staff, and we look ahead to using his expertise, experience, and perspective to assist the franchise obtain sustained excellence.”
