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Who was the first Oriole to play for the team who was younger than you?


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Cal is a year older than me (my high school team beat a Charlotte team for the state title in '78 where their minor league O's were still playing). So I'm guessing it's someone on the '82 or '83 Orioles.

This reminds me of that rite of passage when you realize you are older than the Playboy centerfold.

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No idea.

I do know that Jim Thome was the last one that was older then me.

Did Giambi finally retire? If so, I'm now older than all MLB players. I think the first to be younger than me was probably Armando Benitez, who was still 21 when he debuted in 1994, about a year and a half younger than me. Just missed with Jeffrey Hammonds who is 14 days older than I am.

Edit: Reading comprehension issues, Hammonds is actually about three months older than me.

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Is there an easy way to do this? I found a list of all O's players, but it's only sortable by their years as an Oriole. I clicked on some good guesses and have an idea, but if there is a list that is sortable by birthdate then that would fun.

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Is there an easy way to do this? I found a list of all O's players, but it's only sortable by their years as an Oriole. I clicked on some good guesses and have an idea, but if there is a list that is sortable by birthdate then that would fun.

Baseball almanac has rosters by year with their birthdates. I clicked a few in the early to mid 90s til I found someone with a 1975 birthday.

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Is there an easy way to do this? I found a list of all O's players, but it's only sortable by their years as an Oriole. I clicked on some good guesses and have an idea, but if there is a list that is sortable by birthdate then that would fun.

I went to BB-Ref and pulled up each year's roster, the players' age is listed.

On the '94 roster there was Benitez.

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Cal is a year older than me (my high school team beat a Charlotte team for the state title in '78 where their minor league O's were still playing). So I'm guessing it's someone on the '82 or '83 Orioles.

This reminds me of that rite of passage when you realize you are older than the Playboy centerfold.

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Cal's also a year older than me. That makes Storm Davis the first Oriole younger than me, by 4 1/2 months ;) After that you have to go to the '85 team with guys like John Habyan and then in '87 with Billy Ripken. By 1990, I was older than 2/3 of the starting line-up with Ripken, Tettleton, and Bradley the exceptions along with SP Dave Johnson.

Now, i'm depressed ;)

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