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• Orioles add Strowd, Young to 40-man roster

The Orioles added right-handed pitchers Kade Strowd and Brandon Young to their 40-man roster on Tuesday, ensuring that they wouldn’t be taken in next month’s Rule 5 draft. Young’s addition was widely predicted. Strowd’s was not. Young was named the organization’s minor league pitcher of the year. In August, executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias […]...2024
• Cowser’s loss in Rookie of Year voting a disappointment for Orioles

Colton Cowser’s second-place finish to New York Yankees’ starter Luis Gil in the American League Rookie of the Year voting was disappointing for the Orioles’ outfielder. It was even more disappointing for executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias. Had Cowser followed Gunnar Henderson, who was the unanimous pick for Rookie of the Year last season, […]...2024
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• Orioles’ week ahead should provide lots of news

After a second week of free agency that was quiet until Mike Elias’ surprising Friday announcement that the left-field wall at Camden Yards would be brought in, this week promises plenty of news. Let’s look at what might be ahead: Cowser could be Rookie of the Year On Monday nigh, Orioles outfielder Colton Cowser could […]...2024
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• Sunday Notes: Nick Pivetta Believes In Pitching To His Strengths
Plus Detroit's Scott Harris on the free agent pitching market, Mike Elias on Baltimore's coaching changes, John Mozeliak on St. Louis's top pitching prospects, and much more....2024
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• Elias says Orioles’ philosophy will stay the same with new hitting coaches

After the Orioles’ elimination from the postseason, executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias promised a full examination of the team and its practices. Six weeks later, two of the team’s three hitting coaches have departed an the left-field wall will be moved in, but Elias said the team’s offensive philosophy will stay the same. After […]...2024
• Orioles’ Elias on the wall, free agency, injury updates

The surprising news that the Orioles were bringing the left -ield wall closer to home plate was the major topic of executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias’ first briefing to the Baltimore media since October 3rd, the day after the Wild Card Series ended. Here are some excerpts on his comments on the wall, free […]...2024

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• AL Week 27 Strategy-September 21, 2024
In The Field SS Bo Bichette was scratched from the Blue Jays lineup on Wednesday with a right finger contusion. He was placed on the 10-day IL on Tuesday. Bichette has been a major disappointment this year (.225 AVG with 4 HR, 29 R, 31 RBI, and 5 SB in 81 GP). OF Victor Robles (hand) left Tuesday's game early with a bruised hand. He was also out of the lineup on Wednesday but returned on Friday....2024
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• Elias provides injury updates on Coulombe, Mountcastle, Rodriguez, Urías, Westburg

BALTIMORE—Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias said on Tuesday that first baseman Ryan Mountcastle, who’s been on the 10-day injured list with a sprained left wrist since August 23rd, has been showing marked improvement. “Mounty is doing well. He is in Florida. I was there during Instructional League yesterday and had a chance to […]...2024
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• AL East Notes: Orioles, Casas, Story, Schmidt
Orioles general manager Mike Elias spoke to reporters (including Roch Kubatko of MASN Sports) ahead of today’s game against the Rays, offering updates on several injured players. First and foremost, he expressed optimism regarding starter Grayson Rodriguez, who landed on the 15-day IL last week. Elias described Rodriguez’s right lat/teres injury as “pretty mild” –…...2024
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• Orioles’ Elias says Rodriguez could return in September; Updates on Webb, McDermott, Kjerstad, Westburg, Coulombe, Bautista

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida—After Grayson Rodriguez stopped his pregame preparation for Tuesday night’s start in Toronto, the Orioles hoped his injury wasn’t serious. The 24-year-old right-hander was placed on the 15-day injured list with right lat/teres discomfort. On Saturday, executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias said he was hopeful Rodriguez would pitch again before the end […]...2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves

Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The dust has settled after a frenzied final few hours of trade activity. How did your team fare? The 2024 MLB Trade Deadline has come and gone. There will be waiver claims, minor signings, injury returns, and other internal promotions from this point onward, but in general, each team’s roster now features the primary players who wi...2024
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• Peter Schmuck: Wondering if Mike Elias can have it both ways after acquiring 4 pitchers while keeping minor league nucleus

During the weeks leading up to the July 30th trade deadline, one of the big questions ping-ponging around social media was whether Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias would be willing to give up any of the game’s top young prospects to upgrade his injury-plagued pitching staff. Turns out, he didn’t have to. Jackson […]...2024
• What to look for from the Orioles in July and beyond

There was plenty to be concerned about as June began for the Orioles. On May 31st, executive vice here/general manager Mike Elias announced that two pitchers who’d been in the projected rotation, John Means and Tyler Wells, would have season-ending elbow surgery. A third starter, Kyle Bradish, would leave the June 14th game against Philadelphia […]...2024
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• Orioles win a wild one with lots of twists and turns over the Yankees

NEW YORK—What happened? Before Wednesday night’s game against the Yankees, executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias announced that right-hander Kyle Bradish had Tommy John surgery earlier in the day and left-handed reliever Danny Coulombe had bone chips removed from his left elbow on Tuesday. Bradish’s surgery was season-ending; Elias thinks Coulombe might be able to […]...2024
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• Mullins provides key hit and steal as Orioles outlast Yankees, 7-6, in 10 innings

NEW YORK—After executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias announced that starting pitcher Kyle Bradish had season-ending Tommy John surgery on Wednesday and reliever Danny Coulombe had bone chips removed from his left elbow on Tuesday, the Orioles managed to outlast the New York Yankees, 7-6, in 10 innings before another sellout crowd of 47,155 at […]...2024
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"General manager Mike Elias announced to the team’s beat writers this morning that right-hander Kyle Bradish has been diagnosed with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow (X link via Danielle Allentuck of…"

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"After the Orioles finished with the American League's best record for the first time since 1997, GM Mike Elias was voted MLB's executive of the year Tuesday."

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"GM Mike Elias: Orioles Will “Significantly Escalate The Payroll” During Offseason"

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"Mejdal is an assistant general manager and vice president with the Orioles who came to Baltimore from Houston with Mike Elias."

2020
"GM Mike Elias said on Saturday that the O’s would be more likely to acquire a Major League starter through free agency than through the trade market, and…"

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"MASN’s Roch Kubatko quoted GM Mike Elias recently, on Wojiechowski: “…if…"

2018
"Bob Nightengale of USA Today tweets that “barring a sudden change of heart,” Astros assistant general manager Mike Elias will be named the new general manager in Baltimore."

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"In November 2014, we ran an interview with Mike Elias, who was then Houston’s director of amateur scouting."

2015
"When the Astros initially signed the hard-throwing Mengden after drafting him in the fourth round of the 2014 draft, Houston scouting director Mike Elias provided an insightful scouting report on him, per MLB."

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"Today we have a long conversation with Mike Elias on the subject of amateur scouting."

• Orioles add Strowd, Young to 40-man roster
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• Sunday Notes: Nick Pivetta Believes In Pitching To His Strengths
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• Orioles will adjust to new role in free agent market
In the first week of free agency, Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias joined his colleagues at the General Manager’s Meetings in San Antonio to meet with agents and talk about the parameters for possible trades with other GMs. In the past two years, the Orioles moved fairly quickly to sign their free agents. […]...2024
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• Reviewing Orioles’ arbitration candidates
Mike Elias knows he has a busy offseason ahead of him. One subject that the Orioles’ executive vice president/general manager wasn’t asked about during Thursday’s wide-ranging season-ending press conference was the large number of players eligible for arbitration. A year ago, the guess here was that the Orioles wouldn’t be offering arbitration to each of […]...2024
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• Is there hope for the White Sox future?

Exclusive imaging of the White Sox analytics department. Other turnarounds don’t suggest it As the season creeps forward to the magical question, “To be 120+ or not to be 120+?” it behooves us to consider other teams that have recently been in dire straits ... though, of course, not necessarily quite as dire. There are four teams to examine that represent a relatively quick turnaround, ea...2024
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• AL East Notes: Orioles, Casas, Story, Schmidt
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• Does Elias play favorites with Orioles he’s brought into the organization? / MAILBAG

Most weekdays, I’ll be answering at least one Orioles question. If you’d like to submit a question, send it to: [email protected]. Questions may be edited for clarity, length and style. Question: I think Mike Elias seems to have a good bit more loyalty to the players who have been drafted by him or the players […]...2024
• Orioles sign veteran 3rd baseman J.D. Davis to minor league contract

The Orioles signed veteran third baseman J.D. Davis to a minor league contract on Wednesday. The 31-year-old Davis, who was selected by Houston in the third round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft when Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias was running the draft, was released by the New York Yankees on Friday. […]...2024
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• Orioles’ Elias on trade deadline moves: ‘I didn’t know what to expect’

BALTIMORE—Mike Elias said he slept soundly on Tuesday night. After completing four deals, three in the hour before the 6 p.m. trade deadline, the Orioles’ executive vice president/general manager was content with the additions to the club. One of them, left-handed reliever Gregory Soto, was available for Wednesday’s game. So was baseball’s top prospect, Jackson […]...2024
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• MLB mock draft 2024: Updated projection ahead of Men’s College World Series

Cyndi Chambers Sports / USA TODAY NETWORK The Men’s College World Series is here, but where might some of the players be headed next month? This week eight men’s college baseball teams arrive in Omaha with a shot at a national championship, and NCAA baseball immortality. But for some of the players in Omaha, the Men’s College World Series is just the next stop on their way to achieving th...2024
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• 2024 AL East preview: High-flying young Orioles seek to repeat

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The Baby Birds zoomed up to 101 wins and the division crown in 2023, and their nest of prospects only continues to grow. For almost a decade, the daunting AL East was dominated by the high-profile New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, as well as the perennially savvy Tampa Bay Rays. In 2023, however, the division champion was none of those three teams; inst...2024
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• 2024 MLB Season Preview: Baltimore Orioles

PhotoPhoto by Cliff Welch/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Orioles are stocked with young players and made one of the biggest splashes of the offseason by acquiring Corbin Burnes. Fans of the Baltimore Orioles endured have endured plenty of losing in recent seasons as the club worked its way through a rebuild that, at times, was painful. The Orioles’ Front Office preached patience and...2024
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• Just how much can the Royals improve? You might be surprised.

Maikel Garcia #11 of the Kansas City Royals advances to third against the New York Yankees at Kauffman Stadium on September 30, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. | Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Is an 80-win season in the cards? Despite what the Kansas City Royals have done over the past quarter century or so, it’s hard to lose 100 baseball games if you’re trying not to. From 2014 through 201...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 5, 2023
He can fly! | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Happy Cinco de Mayo! I’m not going to blast John Sherman as this is what the owner is supposed to say: When the standings are what they are, what are the signs that lead you to believe you’re headed in the right direction? “There’s just a lot of things that we’re seeing beneath the surface that we feel good about — in terms of going in the ...2023
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• Looking back on the trades that started the Orioles’ rebuild
The long and painful Orioles’ rebuild actually began four months before Mike Elias became the head of the team’s baseball operations department in November 2018. In a 13-day period, six of the team’s mainstays were traded by Elias’ predecessor, Dan Duquette, and while it’s fair to say that the results of those trades were mixed, […]...2022
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• Elias expects Orioles to be active this offseason
BALTIMORE—Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias said on the final day of the 2022 regular season that he’s pleased with the results and that he’ll have flexibility in the offseason to improve the team. “We’re very pleased with what happened up and down the organization this year,” Elias said in an end-of-season news conference […]...2022
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• Daniel Mengden, Jacob Nottingham to A's: Trade Details, Scouting Report, More
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• Elias: ‘Corbin Burnes is exactly what we needed’

Mike Elias was clearly pleased about the Orioles’ acquisition of former Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes from the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday night. “It was a big trade, and I think a big addition and moment for our team,” the Orioles’ executive vice president/general manager said in a video conference call on Friday. “Corbin […]...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Managing in the offseason

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Three teams have new managers. A look at the free agent market. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. There were three managers hired on Monday, although it seems like we have one of those hires covered pretty well around here. The Mets, who were considered an early favorite for Craig Counsell, hired Yankees bench coach Carlos Mendoza as their new mana...2023
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• What it’s like to lose 110 games, from the fans that lived through it

Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Can the Royals learn from the Tigers, Orioles, and Diamondbacks? The Royals have had plenty of terrible seasons in club history, but the 2023 season may take the cake. The team is on pace to lose 111 games, which would easily surpass the club record of 106 losses set in 2005, and would tie for the seventh-most losses by any club since ...2023
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• Why the Orioles should make a big splash for Justin Verlander at the MLB trade deadline
Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images The Baltimore Orioles are in a fascinating position as the deadline approaches When you walk through the concourse at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, numbers are everywhere. Numbers that pay tribute to historic moments in baseball history, such as 2,632, which marks the consecutive-games streak set by Cal Ripken Jr. Then there are the team’s host of retired ...2023
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 5, 2023
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• Grayson Rodriguez, 2023 Fantasy Outlook
Orioles' GM Mike Elias on Grayson Rodriguez, “I hope he makes the opening-day rotation.” Hey, Mike, that makes two of us. Elias Sports Bureau asked of Mike Elias, "Are you our father?" Grayson Rodriguez is the biggest pitfall for fantasy baseball rookies posts. I've been here already. I thought he'd be up last year. Was very disappointing to not see Grayson Rodriguez. I'd love to lay it all at the...2022
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• Orioles Have Interest In Andrew Cashner
With the Orioles looking to add an inexpensive veteran arm to their rotation, Andrew Cashner is “one of the free agents under consideration,” MASNsports.com’s Roch Kubatko writes. GM Mike Elias said on Saturday that the O’s would be more likely to acquire a Major League starter through free agency than through the trade market, and…...2020
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• GM Mike Elias: Orioles Will “Significantly Escalate The Payroll” During Offseason
The Orioles have been one of the biggest stories of the 2022 season, emerging from years of rebuilding and mediocrity to post a 59-54 record and challenge for a wild card slot. Even if it looks like the O’s may have turned the corner already, the club definitely wants to make winning a habit going…...2022
• Orioles “Favorites” To Sign Cuban INF Cesar Prieto
The Orioles are the “favorites” to sign infielder Cesar Prieto when the international signing period opens on January 15th, per MLB.com’s Francys Romero (via Twitter). Romero reports the signing amount to be somewhere between $650K and $750K. Baltimore has been aggressive under GM Mike Elias in pursuing international free agents. It’s one of the few…...2022
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• GM Elias of 101-win O's voted executive of year

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• Kyle Bradish Diagnosed With UCL Sprain, Will Begin Season On Injured List
Pitchers and catchers reported to camp for the Orioles today, but report date has brought unwelcome news for O’s fans. General manager Mike Elias announced to the team’s beat writers this morning that right-hander Kyle Bradish has been diagnosed with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow (X link via Danielle Allentuck of…...2024
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• Orioles manager Brandon Hyde will return in 2025, his seventh season, despite two straight early playoff exits

GM Mike Elias backed Hyde one day after O's were swept by Royals...2024
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• Orioles To Return Rule 5 Picks Brandon Bailey, Michael Rucker
The Orioles have decided against carrying both of their Rule 5 selections from the December draft, GM Mike Elias told media members including Jon Meoli of the Baltimore Sun (via Twitter). The departures of righties Brandon Bailey and Michael Rucker will open two 40-man roster spots. It isn’t yet entirely clear whether these two hurlers…...2020
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• Latest On Mets Search For A General Manager
Another couple of names have been withdrawn from the Mets’ search for a new general manager. Sig Mejdal is now out of the running, per Andy Martino of SNY (via Twitter). Mejdal is an assistant general manager and vice president with the Orioles who came to Baltimore from Houston with Mike Elias. Mejdal’s strength is…...2021
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• Grayson Rodriguez, 2023 Fantasy Outlook
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• Another look at Orioles’ starting candidates for spring training

Thirteen pitchers started games for the Orioles in 2024, and while six of the 13 spent time on the injured list, executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias has to count on needed at least that many in 2025. One of the starters was Matt Bowman, who was used as an opener in the penultimate game […]...2024
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• Orioles manager Brandon Hyde will return in 2025, his seventh season, despite two straight early playoff exits
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• AL Week 27 Strategy-September 21, 2024
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• MLB Trade Deadline 2024: Grading all 30 teams’ moves
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• Mullins provides key hit and steal as Orioles outlast Yankees, 7-6, in 10 innings
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• Kyle Bradish Undergoes Tommy John Surgery
Orioles general manager Mike Elias informed reporters that right-hander Kyle Bradish underwent Tommy John surgery with an internal brace today. He’ll be out for the rest of this year and part of 2025 as well. Danielle Allentuck of the Baltimore Banner was among those to relay the news on X. Additionally, left-hander Danny Coulombe had…...2024
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• Orioles right-hander Tyler Wells has elbow surgery

Orioles right-hander Tyler Wells had right elbow revision ulnar collateral ligament surgery with UCL repair and internal brace augmentation on Monday. The team announced that the surgery was successful and was performed by Dr. Keith Meister in Arlington, Texas. On May 31st, Orioles executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias announced that Wells and left-hander John […]...2024
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• John Means, Tyler Wells To Undergo UCL Surgery
Orioles general manager Mike Elias informed the media today that both left-hander John Means and right-hander Tyler Wells will undergo elbow surgery. Each player will be undergoing ulnar collateral ligament repair, though it’s not known if either will be full Tommy John surgery or the internal brace alternative. In either case, both players are now…...2024
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• Who is O's managerial candidate Hyde?
A day after Brandon Hyde emerged as the Orioles' reported managerial hire, the baseball world remained abuzz with speculation over whether or not he in fact will be. The Orioles have not confirmed the reports, with executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias calling them "premature."...2018
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