When executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias took over the Orioles in November 2018 and explained his vision of a player development pipeline, every tenured player on the roster probably started preparing for their career to continue elsewhere.
Outside the organization, the expectation certainly was for a complete fire sale, but that hasn’t exactly happened yet. Looking back on the trades Elias has consummated doesn’t do much to show what he might do this week, ahead of his second in-season trade deadline Aug. 31.
Separating out the trades for international bonus pool money in 2019 that brought in Dwight Smith Jr.