On Saturday, the two year anniversary passed of the day that the Orioles officially launched into the rebuilding era by trading their star player, Manny Machado, to the Dodgers. The trade netted the Orioles five players in return, of whom four remain in the organization: Outfielder Yusniel Diaz, infielder Rylan Bannon, starting pitcher Dean Kremer, and reliever Zach Pop.
It’s easy enough, once a general manager is no longer with a team, to look back on some of his worst decisions and ignore some of his better decisions and rate him as one of the greatest idiots to ever walk the earth.