"I told [fellow reliever] Darren O'Day we really can't play catch till 4:05, that four- or five-minute grace period. At 4:03 he came in and asked me and I was like, 'I don't know, they might have just taken a couple guys off their Triple-A roster,'" said Hunter, who had been rumored in trade talks in the days leading up to the Deadline, rumors that persisted Friday afternoon. "And then I saw all of your pretty faces [in the media] again around my locker."
The always gregarious Hunter, with the Orioles since mid-2011, said he dropped some jokes in with his teammates when saying farewell and acknowledged that being traded once before -- from Texas -- helped prepare him for Friday's news.