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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Orioles general manager Mike Elias broke his silence about his decision to fire manager Brandon Hyde, saying Tuesday he's doing an across-the-board evaluation to determine what has caused Baltimore's remarkably rapid decline.
“You go back to last June, we were on top of the sport in almost every facet of the sport, including majors and minors,” Elias said of his team, which carried a seven-game skid into Tuesday’s game at Milwaukee. “Now we find ourselves where we find ourselves. This has been hitting us all very hard, but it’s unusual for that to be so sudden.