In one of his first acts in charge of the Orioles back in 2018, when he was taking over a threadbare organization and had just gotten rid of the holdover scouting and player development heads who had been in charge for years, executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias made clear that changing the team’s direction wasn’t going to be a problem.
And he did so in a way that, even if he’s spoken to these ends about the scouting and player development prowess he and assistant general manager Sig Mejdal brought from Houston since, hasn’t been as blunt since.