An early report card for Mike Elias

Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports Six weeks into the Great Rebuild of 2019, it’s way too soon to start judging the performance of our new GM. And yet … heading into the 2019 draft, it’s been on my mind, so let’s do just that.

In his very first press conference, Elias pledged to make the Orioles front office a little more “transparent.” He started on a good note, winning over a lot of fans with November 19 Reddit session where he confessed that he would rather fight one horse-sized duck over a hundred duck-sized horses.

Elias’ first hire was former NASA engineer and blackjack dealer Sig Mejdal, who built the Cardinals’ analytics department back in the ‘00’s when only Billy Beane was doing it.…