Mike Elias' path to the Orioles' general manager job began in earnest in John Stuper's Yale University dugout, at a time when an Ivy League dugout was just starting to be viewed as the cradle for baseball minds that they’ve ultimately become. He had a feel for the game. He had the drive, and he...
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Though all remains quiet in the B&O Warehouse, unconfirmed reports that the Orioles are soon to name Houston Astros assistant general manager Mike Elias their new director of baseball operations is already giving the team some street cred. The 35-year-old executive has been responsible for the...
Flush with cash, the New York Yankees might take a run at Manny Machado. But first, the former Orioles infielder would have some explaining to do. Arriving in Atlanta for two days of owners meetings at a hotel next to the Braves' SunTrust Park, Hal Steinbrenner discussed the state of a team that...
Houston Astros assistant general manager Mike Elias is poised to become the Orioles’ next head of baseball operations, according to several news outlets. Elias was a key component in the successful rebuild of the 2017 World Series champion Astros as their scouting director and then-assistant general...
The search has finally ended and the Orioles have a new baseball operations chief, which means everyone can stop talking about the unmitigated disaster that was the 2018 season and begin looking forward to what comes next. Mike Elias, 35, is the fresh face that hopes to put a fresh face on a franchise...
Former Orioles manager Buck Showalter wrote a letter to the fans Friday outlining all he loved and would miss about Baltimore, five weeks after he was dismissed with his contract expiring and two weeks after returning to the city to host his annual charity walk at Camden Yards. In the letter on...
Former Orioles second baseman and manager Davey Johnson and six other former Orioles players are on the 10-man ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame's Today's Game Era committee to consider next month. The former Orioles on the ballot for the 16-man committee, which meets Dec. 9 at the winter meetings...
Without a new, permanent baseball operations head, interim man Brian Graham will be representing the Orioles’ interests in matters minor and major at this week's general manager meetings in Carlsbad, Calif., as the baseball world sets itself up for next month's Winter Meetings in Las Vegas. But...
Right fielder Nick Markakis, who won the American League Gold Glove in 2011 and 2014 with the Orioles, won the National League version Sunday night as a member of the Atlanta Braves. "This is a great honor to be recognized with the Gold Glove Award," Markakis, who underwent neck surgery before...
Baseball’s free-agent market opened for business this weekend and the Orioles still appear to be a few weeks away from naming a new baseball operations chief, but don’t be alarmed. This was never going to be a big free-agent offseason for the Orioles, so the deliberate search for Dan Duquette’s...
A month after dismissing executive vice president Dan Duquette and manager Buck Showalter following the worst season in franchise history, the Orioles' search for a new individual to lead their baseball operations department continues. One of three organizations looking to fill that position this...