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Lamb Starts Like a Lion

By STEVE HENSON
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David Lamb (Newbury Park) isn’t happy about returning to the Baltimore Orioles’ double-A affiliate in Bowie, Md., but he is glad to be back at shortstop after playing second base most of last season.

Lamb, a switch-hitter, is batting .450 in his first 20 at-bats. He batted .331 in 269 at-bats at Bowie in 1997 after being promoted from Class-A Frederick (Md.) at midseason.

The Orioles’ triple-A shortstop, Mitch Simons, is 29 years old and triple-A second baseman P.J. Forbes is 30, making Lamb much more of a major-league prospect than either.

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Lamb, 22, is in his sixth pro season after being a second-round draft pick in 1993.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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