"I think he is back in Korea. We are not going to sign him. We don't want to sign him. We are electing not to sign him," Duquette said.

"We made a mistake on that and we've moved on. We made a mistake in the protocol agreement. It's important for the Orioles to respect the protocol agreements that Major League Baseball has with baseball associations around the world, so we apologized for that and we've moved on."

Have the Orioles moved on because they are not allowed to sign Kim?

"We've elected not to," Duquette said. "There was a period of time where we couldn't sign him, but we decided under the circumstances that the right thing to do would be to move on."