The Orioles have promoted Brendan Fournie to an assistant general manager position, MASNsports.com’s Roch Kubatko reports. Fournie has been with the O’s for just under four years, working as the team’s senior director of baseball strategy and operations. His new portfolio, as per Kubatko, will include Fournie “oversee baseball economics, advanced scouting and salary arbitration, and also provide roster and transaction support.”
Fournie becomes Mike Elias’ third assistant GM, joining Sig Mejdal and Eve Rosenbaum. It hasn’t exactly been clear who (if anyone) Elias views as his chief lieutenant within Baltimore’s front office, though when news broke two months ago that Elias had been promoted to president of baseball operations prior to the start of the 2025 season, it came with the added item that the O’s were planning to hire a general manager to act as Elias’ number two.