'A great communicator': Former colleagues see bright future for reported Orioles manager Brandon Hyde

Browse photos of Brandon Hyde, who will reportedly be the Orioles' next manager, at his previous major league stops with the Florida Marlins (2010-12) and Chicago Cubs (2013-18). It's one thing to boast that a major league managerial job was always in a colleague's future once he actually lands one, as has reportedly been the case for Chicago Cubs bench coach Brandon Hyde with the Orioles.

It's another entirely to tell his father to his face a decade earlier. But that's what Reid Cornelius, the pitching coach on Hyde's staff when he last managed in 2009, did when Hyde's family visited them that summer in Jacksonville.

"I just remember talking with his Dad," Cornelius said. "It seems like…