The Orioles introduced top draft choice Grayson Rodriguez to the media late Tuesday afternoon, providing a fleeting glimpse of the team’s long-term future.
It wasn’t that future, however, that Dan Duquette was talking about when he said recently it was time to refocus the efforts of the front office beyond the final months of this very discouraging season.
Duquette was talking about remaking the current roster into something that might be ready to be competitive relatively soon — maybe even next season — so he was talking about Manny Machado and the Orioles’ other pending free agents who might help him make that happen.