CHICAGO — Monday, on the other side of the Orioles’ weekend series at Wrigley Field, will mark 10 years since Trey Mancini played his first game in Baltimore’s organization. Before the matchup between his new and old teams began, he spoke about what the portion of the past decade spent with the Orioles meant to him.
“If you would have told me 10 years ago everything that would have happened between then and now, I don’t know if I would have believed it back then,” Mancini said. “It’s always gonna hold such a special place in my heart.”
Mancini batted sixth and played first base for the Chicago Cubs in Friday’s series opener against the Orioles. The 31-year-old was Baltimore’s eighth-round pick in 2013 and made his major league debut three years later. Across a six-year run as an Oriole that ended with last year’s trade to the Houston Astros, Mancini endeared himself to the fan base and the Baltimore community with his play, his personality, and his battle against and return from stage 3 colon cancer.
