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Mark Hendrickson’s baseball journey has now reached its fifth port of call.
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that Hendrickson has agreed to a contract with the Baltimore Orioles.
The contract will become official when Hendrickson passes a physical. That is expected to happen this week, the Sun reported.
The Orioles will be the fifth team in Major League Baseball for Hendrickson, a 1992 graduate of Mount Vernon High School. He has pitched for Toronto, Tampa Bay, the Los Angeles Dodgers and, most recently, the Florida Marlins. He also played for four teams during a four-year career in the National Basketball Association.
The 2009 season will be the eighth in the majors for Hendrickson. He has a 50-63 record with a 5.07 earned-run average.
In 2008, he was 7-8 with a 5.45 ERA in 1332⁄3 innings of work. He split his time almost evenly between starter and reliever, starting 19 games and appearing in relief 17 times.
The Orioles have been looking to land two starting pitchers this offseason, but Hendrickson may be ticketed for long relief, a position he filled with the Marlins for the second half of 2008.
Right now, Jeremy Guthrie is the only veteran starter in the Orioles’ rotation.
Garrett Olson and Radhames Liz started a combined 43 games for the Orioles last year, but both finished with earned-run averages above six.
