After more than a month of searching, the Orioles finally found their man to take over the reins of the organization and hopefully lead them to a better place. Late Tuesday night, USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reported that the O’s GM job, or whatever it ends up being called, would go to Astros assistant Mike Elias, unless there was a change of heart.
Local reporters including The Athletic’s Dan Connolly also reported on Elias’s name on Wednesday morning. There’s still the possibility of some weird reversal because this is the Orioles we’re talking about, but for now it sounds like it’s mostly down to dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.