Calvin Gregory Maduro (born September 5, 1974) is an Aruban former professional

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player. He played five years in

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between and . For most of the 2010s, he was a

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for the

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Playing career

Maduro was sent from the Orioles to the

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on September 3, 1996, in a transaction that began when

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and Pete Incaviglia were acquired by Baltimore on August 29 and ended when Garrett Stephenson also went to Philadelphia on September 4. He played for the Phillies from 1996 to 1997 and the Orioles from 2000 to 2002. Maduro also represented the

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at the

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where he and his team finished sixth. In those years he played for the Dutch major league club HCAW.

Post-playing career

In , Maduro was named the pitching coach for the

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of the

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, an Orioles farm team. He spent three seasons there, then two more seasons with the Gulf Coast Orioles before becoming a scout in . After 10 years in the Orioles organization, he became the pitching coach for the Gulf Coast Twins in 2021.

Honors

After the 2003 season, he was decorated as a Knight in the

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, along with fellow Aruba-born baseball players Eugene Kingsale and

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