Outfielder Jeff Fiorentino has opted for free agency instead of accepting assignment, in looking at his baseball reference page he looks like another Jesus Feliciano type of AAAA player.But Fiorentino was much more then that, in 2005 he was the #3 prospect in the Orioles system, he was 22 y/o in Advanced A hitting .285 when Baltimore decided to promote him to the majors. In 13 games he hit .250 but the expectations from that stint may have been set too high both in the organizations mind and his own. In 2006 he hit only .275 in AA and when he was called up hit .256 in 19 MLB games, hardly the numbers of a can't miss prospect. He dropped all the way to the #11 prospect and even John Sickels mentioned that the premature promotion may have hurt him. After a disappointing 2006 it appears the Orioles decided to slow things down a bit and left him in AA the entire season which resulted in a .282 BA and he improved his prospect status back up to #8. At that point he was looking like a maj...
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