A new voice on the bench, a familiar name in the crosshairs. The next move belongs upstairs.
If there was any doubt about where the buck stops in Baltimore, the answer arrived the moment Craig Albernaz took the chair and Robinson Chirinos began packing his binder. This is how power transitions actually look in baseball: a new manager arrives with permission to curate the room, and the front office signals, subtly or not, that the next phase of the project will be judged with fewer qualifiers.