Dan Duquette (above) has a big supporter in Lee Thomas. (AP)

Onetime Red Sox assistant general manager Lee Thomas was hired Sunday as a special assistant to the Orioles’ executive vice president of baseball operations, reuniting him with new O’s GM Dan Duquette.

Thomas, 75, most recently was a pro scout for the Brewers from 2004-06, following a six-year stint with the Sox.

“Lee is good at a lot of things I’m not so good at, so we are a real effective complement to one another,” Duquette said. “I’m absolutely thrilled he is here to help. He will particularly help us with communication with other clubs and on the trade market.”

Thomas, 75, said he was bored the last couple of years after leaving the game, and he started paying closer attention to the Orioles.

“I guess the last year or two I have, and especially since Buck [Showalter] came over and now even more since Dan came over,” he said. “I don’t think people know how good Dan Duquette is. I really don’t. I think there is a lot of people out there that missed the boat on him. He and Buck, I think, are going to work great together and if Dan gets him the right players, I think you will see great things happen. I really do believe that.”

Added Thomas: “I’ve missed [working in baseball]. I really have. It was OK the first couple of years, I guess I’ve been out about four years. I really did miss it. I’d go to see the Cardinals once in a while, I was involved with one of their camps. I was bored and when [Duquette] called me, I told him I was bored.

“He and I always kind of kept in touch. As soon as I knew he was involved [with the Orioles], I was getting more excited. I felt like he was going to call me. I didn’t know he interviewed for the Angels job. Apparently, he did pretty well there.”

Duquette noted that Thomas signed Johnny Damon to the Red Sox in December 2001, despite a scene in the movie “Moneyball” that implies otherwise.

“That was one of the last contracts we did, and Lee did that contract directly with Scott Boras,” Duquette said. “That scene in ‘Moneyball,’ where Boras said, ‘I just got off the phone with Dan,’ that’s not true.”