Baysox, Orioles Unveil 2022 Minor League Coaching Staffs

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD — The Orioles baseball program announced Wednesday that Buck Britton, the former Orioles minor leaguer and brother of Zack Britton, will move from Double-A Bowie to Triple-A Norfolk and High-A Aberdeen manager Kyle Moore will head to Bowie.

In 2021, Moore led the High-A Aberdeen IronBirds to a second place finish in the High-A East division. Before then, Moore managed the Low-A Delmarva Shorebirds and led them to their historic 90-win season. The 2022 season will be the 13th season for Moore with the Orioles organization. He played 29 games in two seasons (2010-2011) before becoming a coach. He spent three seasons as a player/coach (2013 Frederick Keys, 2014 Bowie Baysox, 2015 Delmarva Shorebirds) before being named as the Shorebirds hitting coach in 2016 and the Keys hitting coach in 2017.

Moore signed as a non-drafted free agent with the Orioles in 2010 after playing collegiately at the University of Alabama. As a high schooler, he starred at Edgewood Academy in Alabama where he won three AISA state baseball championships. Kyle, his wife Whitney, and their daughter Madilyn reside in Sarasota, Florida.

Moore will be joined by pitching coach Josh Conway, hitting coach Branden Becker, fundamentals coach Tim DeJohn, development coach Billy Facteau, athletic trainer William Kelly and strength and conditioning coach Chandler Geller. This will be Conway's fourth season with the Orioles organization. Conway served as a Baysox coach during the 2019 season and was selected in the fourth round of the 2012 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft by the Chicago Cubs out of Coastal Carolina. He played three seasons with the Cubs organization, making it to Double- A in 2016. The Smithburg, Maryland, native returned to the Chanticleers to complete his undergraduate degree and served as a student assistant and assistant pitching coach before joining the Orioles.

Becker was drafted by the Orioles in the 17th round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in 2015 and played parts of four seasons in the organization before retiring in May 2019. He rejoined the Orioles as the fundamentals coach for the IronBirds for the 2020 season before it was canceled. He served as the hitting coach for the Complex League Orioles in 2021.

DeJohn has been the fundamentals coach for Aberdeen and started his coaching career as an assistant coach at Western Connecticut State University in 2007 where he played baseball as an undergraduate. He moved into coaching at the high school level for several years before moving back to coaching in the college ranks with the University of Hartford Hawks in 2016-2017 and the University of Memphis from 2018-2019. He joined the Orioles as a development coach in the Gulf Coast League for the 2019 season.

Facteau spent last season as a technology coordinator intern; Kelly assisted the team's athletic trainers last year; Geller served as coordinator of sports performance sciences for the Texas Rangers most recently; and Weinberg enters his second season as clubhouse manager.

Baysox opening night will be April 8 at 6:35 pm against the Richmond Flying Squirrels at Prince George’s Stadium. The Baysox will play a schedule of 138 games (69 home, 69 road) in the Double-A Northeast League in 2022.