Sam Perlozzo

Sam Perlozzo, Orioles manager Do you have any comment on the steroid story that came out today? Not really. No one's asked me any questions about it, and I really don't have anything to say. We're going about our business like we always have. Someone else can take care of that.

Phillies third base coach Juan Samuel didn't get to finish the 2010 season as interim Orioles manager, and negotiations to return him to the O's coaching staff broke down over the winter, but he had nothing but good things to say about the organization Wednesday morning at Bright House Field. "I thought I was heading back [to Baltimore], but it didn't happen to work out," he said. "We couldn't get on the same page. " Still, Samuel said that he was very happy — and grateful to Andy MacPhail — for the opportunity to get some managerial experience, and he bears no ill will torward the O's. He is one of two former Orioles managers on the Phillies coaching staff, along with Sam Perlozzo . Samuel was replaced by Buck Showalter after managing the Orioles to a 17-34 record as the interim replacement for Dave Trembley , but he said he wasn't surprised that the club turned a corner during the final two months of the season.

Sam Perlozzo, Orioles manager What did you think of minor league pitcher Brandon Erbe during the Hall of Fame Game? He was pretty darn good. Leo [Mazzone] had actually talked to him in the later innings and worked on his curveball a little bit, and he picked it up immediately. ... It looks like we have a future pitcher on our hands.

MASN broadcaster Rick Dempsey, who came up empty this week in his fourth attempt to become the Orioles' manager, said he is "very, very disappointed" he didn't get the job but is supportive of the decision to bring in Buck Showalter. "I'm very, very disappointed, to tell you the truth," said Dempsey, the longtime Orioles coach and player who was the 1983 World Series Most Valuable Player. "I don't begrudge Buck getting the opportunity. He is going to be a hell of a manager. He has been a hell of a manager.

SEATTLE -- When the Seattle Mariners' charter plane touches down at BWI Marshall Airport this evening, there will be a homecoming of sorts. Sam Perlozzo, the Mariners third base coach and Cumberland's favorite son, will step back onto Maryland soil for the first time in months. As for the dueling heartbreaking and heartwarming memories, the swirling emotions he is anticipating, Perlozzo doesn't expect to deal with them until he walks into Camden Yards, or perhaps not until pre-game introductions tomorrow night.

Manager Mike Hargrove was away from the game to be with his ailing mother, making the Orioles, for one April stretch during the 2003 season, Sam Perlozzo's team. He had the final say on the lineup, decided when to remove a pitcher, and the responsibility of dealing with the media before and after games. However, Perlozzo told anybody and everybody that this was "Grover's team." He declined to sit behind Hargrove's desk during interviews, re-routing the media to a small nook in the manager's office.

He vividly remembers the phone call that delivered perhaps the most disappointing news of his professional life. He remembers the caller's tone of voice, his immediate reaction and the flurry of emotion that came over him. "We want you to know that we made our decision," then-Orioles executive vice president Jim Beattie told Sam Perlozzo in November 2003, "and we are going to go with Lee Mazzilli." For weeks, Perlozzo had heard from people outside the organization that he was going to be the Orioles' next manager.

Good morning --Sam Perlozzo-- Your roster has been so depleted the past few days, it's as if you were in the NFL.

Good morning --Sam Perlozzo -- The All-Star break arrives just as the Orioles are on a roll - two straight wins.

Buck Showalter is the ninth man chosen to manage the Orioles since Peter Angelos took over as principal owner in August 1993. Here's a look at the tenures of the eight men who preceded Showalter. Year(s) Manager Record Highlight Where it went wrong 2010 Juan Samuel 16-31 The Orioles' four-game sweep of the first-place Rangers in Texas on July 8-11, which sent the team into the All-Star break with momentum Put in a difficult position, Samuel was unable to coax much improvement from the team.

From the moment the decision was made to jettison Dave Trembley and install Juan Samuel as interim manager, there was really just one thing that could threaten the Orioles' search for the right outside candidate to take the permanent job and lead them into the future. Juan Samuel. The risk inherent in hiring an interim manager -- especially early in the season -- is that the team just might take a hard right turn and leave room to wonder if the right guy was sitting there under your nose all along.

Dave Trembley was still the manager when the Orioles opened their brief homestand against the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday night, which should not have come as a great surprise to anyone who understands the complicated calculus that comes with the decision to make a managerial change at this early point in the season. That doesn't mean it won't happen, but it does mean that the people who will make that decision — owner Peter Angelos and president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail — know that it is not as simple as just sending in some other helpless villager to absorb four more months of this punishment.

Let's start with this: I've never seen Dave Trembley more frustrated than he was Sunday after the Orioles' 4-3 loss in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park. He looked as beaten as I've ever seen him, too. Now you wonder whether the Orioles manager gets to keep his job. Oh, yes, the death watch is on for Trembley as the Orioles keep struggling and finding new ways to beat themselves. Or maybe it's more of a perceived death watch because president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail keeps saying his main concern is upgrading personnel and making the team better rather than focusing on the manager.

New Orioles ace Kevin Millwood spent his second Grapefruit League start much as he spent his first - up to his eyes in line drives. Millwood got rocked again in a 2 2/3 -inning appearance against the Minnesota Twins at Hammond Stadium on Thursday night, giving up five runs on nine hits and leaving the mound with an exhibition ERA of 29.70. Not very impressive, especially coming after he allowed six runs in just two-thirds of an inning in his spring debut. "I stink in spring training," Millwood said afterward.

Orioles@Phillies 7 p.m. [MASN] Ever wonder what became of former Orioles manager Sam Perlozzo (left)? He's the Phillies' third base coach. Perlozzo has company. Philadelphia's first base coach is former Orioles coach Davey Lopes, and the bench coach is former Baysox and Keys manager Pete Mackanin.

It wasn't one they'll be talking about years from now when they tell the story of the Orioles' return to glory. If they talk at all about yesterday at Camden Yards, it'll be about how fans and players were teased by a downpour all day, then got one when things were almost finished. And about how Steve Trachsel couldn't pitch quick enough or George Sherrill couldn't go to the plate enough (instead of over to first) to get the game in before the rain soaking the rest of the area finally soaked the ballpark.