Good morning, Birdland!
We are officially one year into the Mike Elias era of Orioles baseball. How is everyone feeling?
The performance at the major league level has been predictably bad. Even still, the team did improve by seven wins over the previous season, and they did it with very few big names, a luxury that the 2018 iteration did have.
Elias’s background is in scouting and player development. On that front, the O’s seem to have improved by leaps and bounds. Selecting the top player in the draft, Adley Rutschman, certainly helps, but it was far from the only factor.