Baltimore Orioles have reached the “Managing Director insists that the manager's work is sure” of a difficult start of the 2025 season.
Addressing journalists before Friday's match against the Royals of Kansas City, the director general of Orioles, Mike Elias, told journalists that he was confident in the manager Brandon Hyde despite the start of 12-18 who has the team in the basement of Al East, in one year with expectations in qualifying series.
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From Jacob Calvin Meyer from Baltimore Sun::
How do you think Brandon Hyde has done this season and what is your level of self-confidence?
“Very confident in Brandon Hyde. I think you are looking at the work of a director of the major league, and I would need 45 minutes to talk about everything that is going on in the work of a director of the major league, but when things are fine and they sometimes have this, then when we feel your failure, and that's really important.”
The start of the Orioles has been their worst since 2019, the year after Hyde and Elias were both hired. A month after the start of the season, Orioles are one of the most disappointing teams in the MLB, two years after publishing a season of 101 victories.
Elias was specifically asked if Hyde, who has a record of 418-482 in seven seasons as manager of the Orioles and reached the MLB qualifiers twice, had lost the clubhouse. His answer:
“This clubhouse, I will throw part of the reconstruction of years earlier because a group of different guys and a different mode, but since this team began to meet in 2022, it was a very coherent place and it is always for me and the people who are there all the time-and (Hyde is) in the middle of all this.”
Elias defending Hyde is a good thing to see, but doing it also accepts the premise that Hyde is the one who is at fault for the current Baltimore misfortunes. In reality, the problems that Orioles have beyond Hyde.
Brandon Hyde is apparently safe in the middle of the Orioles misfortunes. (Photo of Greg Fiume / Getty Images)
(Greg Fiume via Getty Images)
Hyde was not the executive who decided that the team rotation did not need a major addition after losing Corbin Burnes. Hyde was not the one who gave $ 15 million to Morton, who was 41, then watched her start the season with a 9.45 MPM. Hyde was not the one who gave $ 5 million to Kyle Gibson and Watched him allow a legitimately historical number of circuits in his beginnings of the season.
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Orioles have entered the last off -season with the start of their most pronounced problem and have left the offseason with what is still true, despite half of measures to fill the rotation. The result was an era of rotation of 6.04, third in the majors behind the Rockies of Colorado and the Marlins of Miami.
To be fair, the Orioles are also faced with a cavalcade of injuries, in particular with their start -up. This includes Kyle Bratish, who has undergone Tommy John surgery, and Grayson Rodriguez, who fell with inflammation of the elbow and a LAT strain in training in the spring.
The team is also without Colton Cowser, the recruit of the year of last year, and the right-handers Tyler O'Neill and Jordan Westburg, which partly explains the MLB-Worst .492 OPS of the team against left-handed pitch.
Thus, in conclusion, the rotation of the Orioles is one of the worst of MLB, they cannot strike the left-handers and they are more than halfway with a complete list on the IL. But don't worry, they don't blame their manager.
