When Cleveland Guardians president Chris Antonetti spoke at his postmortem press conference after the Guardians’ season ended, he said he was expecting teams with managerial vacancy to inquire some of the members of the Guardians’ coaching staff.
On Sunday we got even more empirical evidence of that, as ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported the Orioles were finalizing a deal with Guardians associate manager Craig Albernaz as their manager.
He’s the second Guardians coach to be poached this offseason along with Kai Correa, who was hired as the Mets' bench coach.
The Baltimore Orioles are finalizing a deal to hire Craig Albernaz as manager, sources tell ESPN.