If you’d have asked us in September, we never would’ve guessed we’d be so optimistic at this point in the Baltimore Orioles offseason, but here we are on December 21st, praising the moves the O’s have made thus far.
Given how Peter Angelos had operated in the past, we weren’t sure that whoever was hired as the next head of baseball operations would be the right choice for the Orioles, nor did we think whoever that was would have autonomy in the position – enter Mike Elias.
A month has passed since the Elias hire, and it hasn’t felt for a minute like there’s been any interference from the ownership group in baseball operations affairs.