Cuban Outfielder Urrutia Has Sights Set on Big Leagues

From on March 7, 2013

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When he finally could see it, smell it, and feel the dirt of the baseball field underneath his cleats, Cuban outfielder Henry Urrutia stopped for a moment and took a deep breath of satisfaction. Seven months since agreeing with the Orioles on a Minor League deal, Urrutia -- who had been stuck in Haiti trying to secure a work visa -- wanted to remember everything he could about that moment at the Orioles' Minor League facility in Twin Lakes Park on Monday morning.

"[It was] probably the happiest thing that's happened to him the last couple of years," director of the Orioles Dominican Republic Academy Felipe Alou Jr., who served as Urrutia's interpreter, said at a press conference introducing him Wednesday morning. "He's really happy and thankful that the Orioles are giving him this opportunity."

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