Editing Jimmy Key (section)

===Baltimore Orioles===
Key signed as a free agent with the [[Baltimore Orioles]] on December 10, 1996,<ref name="baseball-reference.com"/> and posted a 22–13 record in 59 appearances over two seasons. A free agent in his final season, Key retired from the game after the 1998 season largely due to injuries. He made US$7.73 million with the Orioles over 2 seasons. He wore the number 21 with the Orioles (22 having been retired by Baltimore in honor of hall-of-famer [[Jim Palmer]]).<ref name="baseball-reference.com"/>
He was assigned to Fredrick of the Carolina League in 1998 (1–0 3.00 ERA) during his final rehab stint. Key was granted free agency for the last time on October 27, 1998, by Orioles GM [[Pat Gillick]], the same GM who granted him the same conditions in [[Toronto Blue Jays|Toronto]] in 1992.