Baltimore Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail annouced that the team has decided to retain manager Dave Trembley. Trembley, whose contract had an option for the 2010 campaign, will return for his third season at the helm. That decision came in spite of Baltimore's record (61-98), which is the worst in the American League and could possibly finish as the worst in the past 20 years for the Orioles. MacPhail acknowledged that the team's record is not wholely on Trembley and that many of his principal objectives have been met. "When I came here a couple seasons ago," said MacPhail, "I knew that these first couple seasons were going to be tough, which I shared with ownership. And in my view, this franchise needed to shift its emphasis from the present to the future. When that happens, it comes at a cost, which is inevitable. That's pretty much what happened. "Dave was brought on and primarily given the charge of developing what we hoped to be a cache of young talent coming up through the system. That was his principal objective. It would be unreasonable then, and it would be unreasonable now, to suggest that over the course of those two seasons, we could expect a record better than what we had when we traded away our veteran players, reduced the payroll and brought in a cache of young players." Trembley, who holds a 169-244 record as a big league manager, has said repeatedly that the past few weeks have been tough on him.