Matt Klentak has been hired as the Orioles? director of baseball operations after spending the past four seasons working in Major League Baseball?s Labor Relations Department, the team announced Monday.
Klentak will assist Andy MacPhail, the team?s president, in scouting, player development, contract negotiations and the overall construction of the Major League roster. Klentak spent the 2003 season in the Baseball Operations Department of the Colorado Rockies. The Massachusetts native graduated in 2002 with a degree in economics from Dartmouth, where he spent three seasons as the starting shortstop for the Big Green. He?ll begin his new post on March 4.
HI-DEF FOR O?S: Mid-Atlantic Sports Network will broadcast 40 Orioles games ? and 40 Nationals games ? in high definition this season. MASN will broadcast all 162 games for both teams, including the Orioles? home opener, March 31 against Tampa Bay. The Orioles? HD schedule includes opening day, and games against the Yankees and Red Sox, and the six inter-league games against the Nationals. MASN also announced a boost in on-site broadcasts of pre-game shows for the Orioles and Nationals, with the intent to produce 160 on-location broadcasts this year after producing 64 last season. Gary Thorne returns for a second year as the Orioles play-by-play broadcaster.
