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Orioles hire Roger McDowell as pitching coach

Jerome Miron / Reuters

After Dave Wallace announced his retirement in October, the Baltimore Orioles were in need of a new pitching coach - and they've found their man.

The Orioles announced they've hired Roger McDowell as the club's new pitching coach, along with Alan Mills as their new bullpen coach.

"We felt real lucky to have someone like Roger available," Orioles manager Buck Showalter told Eduardo A. Encina of the Baltimore Sun. "We talked to a lot of people and it came back to Roger."

McDowell, a former big-league pitcher, played 12 seasons split between five different clubs, and was a member of the 1986 World Series champion New York Mets.

The 55-year-old was the Atlanta Braves' pitching coach for 11 years, but his contract option wasn't exercised in October.

Mills, who was teammates with McDowell on the 1996 Orioles club that surged to the ALCS before losing to the New York Yankees, pitched in the bigs for 12 seasons, spending nine of them with Baltimore.

"Both have walked the walk and understand the ups and downs of a major league season," Showalter said of McDowell and Mills.

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