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Orioles watch former prize Eduardo Rodriguez grow up, in a Red Sox uniform

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BALTIMORE -- A dirt field in Valencia, Venezuela. Calvin Maduro remembers there was a bicycle track running behind the field.

It was there in 2009, Maduro said Monday night, that he and another Baltimore Orioles scout watched a workout by a 16-year-old left-hander they had seen in a tryout a couple of weeks earlier.