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Keeping the band together: Orioles stick with what's familiar, retain core leadership group

Adam Jones sits at his corner locker inside the Orioles clubhouse at Ed Smith Stadium and surveys the room. This is Jones' 14th professional season and ninth with the Orioles, so he has seen players come and go. But walking into the Orioles clubhouse this spring and seeing several key faces gone was a thought Jones didn't even want to indulge.

"I don't like change too much," Jones said. "I like to have the same things, having the same old gloves, just the same simple routines. I don't necessarily like change and when I'm going to battle with a group of men, I think that I've got the best group of men in the world.