Calvin Gregory Maduro (born September 5, 1974) is an Aruban former

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player. He played five years in

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between and . For most of the 2010s, he was a scout for the

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Playing career

Maduro played for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1996 to 1997 and for the Baltimore Orioles from 2000 to 2002. Maduro also represented the

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at the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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where he and his team finished sixth. In those years he played for the Dutch major league club

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Post-playing career

In , Maduro was named the pitching coach for the

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of the

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, an Orioles farm team. He spent three seasons there, then two more seasons with the Gulf Coast Orioles before becoming a scout in . After 10 years in the Orioles organization, he became the pitching coach for the

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in 2021.

Honors

After the 2003 season, he was decorated as a Knight in the

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, along with fellow Aruba-born baseball players

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and

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References

External links

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Retrosheet
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Pura Pelota website
– VPBL statistics
Maduro at the Dutch Olympic Archive
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