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<\/p>\nA true Baltimore Orioles fan favorite announced that he intends to make a Major League comeback next season.<\/p>\n
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Trey Mancini spent all of 2024 at home with his family. He\u2019s ready for a comeback.<\/p>\n
The 34-year-old former Baltimore Orioles fan favorite told the Baltimore Banner that he intends to attempt a comeback in 2025 after he failed to make the Miami Marlins\u2019 Opening-Day roster and opted out of his minor-league deal.<\/p>\n
That led to his year off from baseball.<\/p>\n
Mancini grew into a mainstay with the Orioles after he was drafted in the eighth round of the 2013 MLB draft.<\/p>\n
He made his MLB debut three years later and emerged as a versatile option that could play first base, outfielder and designated hitter.<\/p>\n
In his first full season with the Orioles in 2017 he finished third in American League rookie of the year voting after he finished with a slash line of .293\/.338\/.488\/.826 with 24 home runs and 78 RBI.<\/p>\n
He remained an everyday play for the Orioles through the next two seasons. But, in 2020, he was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer and missed the entire COVID-shortened season. A tumor was removed from his colon and he underwent chemotherapy that was completed in November of 2020.<\/p>\n
He returned in 2021 and played on Opening Day, receiving a standing ovation from the crowd at Camden Yards. He was named AL comeback player of the year after he finished the season with a slash line of .255\/.326\/.432\/.758 with 21 home runs and 17 RBI.<\/p>\n
Mancini said he wants to return in part because he wasn\u2019t happy with how is post-Orioles career went down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t exactly love how things ended in my career, and I really do think if I\u2019m in the right situation I can still be an impact bat,\u201d Mancini said. \u201cAnd I know saying that means nothing and I\u2019d have to go out there and prove it, but I\u2019m fully ready to go do that. I just kind of got that hunger back, out of nowhere, honestly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Orioles traded him to the Houston Astros at the 2022 deadline and he his first career grand slam with the Astros. He only slashed .176\/.258\/.364\/.622 with the Astros but contributed to them winning the AL West even though he only participated in 51 games.<\/p>\n He made a key defensive play in Game 5 of the World Series to preserve a victory and help the Astros win the title, giving Mancini his first championship ring.<\/p>\n He signed with the Chicago Cubs in 2023 but struggled at the plate. He finished with a slash line of .234\/.299\/.336\/.635, including four home runs and 28 RBI in 79 games. Chicago released him, after which he signed a minor-league deal with the Cincinnati Reds but failed to catch on there as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A true Baltimore Orioles fan favorite announced that he intends to make a Major League comeback next season. Trey Mancini spent all of 2024 at home with… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n