Five-time All-Star Adam Jones elected to exercise his no-trade clause after the Orioles came to a deal to ship Jones to Philadelphia, using his 10-5 rights.
Those rights are given to all players with 10 or more years of MLB experience, and five-plus with their current team. After being in Baltimore for the past 12 seasons, Jones chose to stay home and not play for a contender like Philadelphia in August and September.
"It's my decision, it's my life," Jones told the media following Baltimore's loss to the Yankees on Tuesday night. "I'm not going around telling other people and dictating other people's lives.