Not long before Orioles tickets for the remainder of the season went on sale to the general public Wednesday, executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias spoke for nearly five minutes, unprompted and uninterrupted, about the largest impediment to tickets sales.
The Orioles entered Wednesday’s matinee in Minnesota as losers of eight straight and 15 of 17, a stretch that dropped them to having the worst record in baseball. Since he took over in November 2018, it’s their worst run of results yet.
Elias’ message was clear: The long-term development goals of the young players on the roster and on the farm and the organization’s plans to build a player-development machine to keep such a miserable rebuild from ever being necessary are on track.