Rosenthal Productions Presents: Trouble In Birdland

[TonySoprano]

Unnamed officials predict disaster. Named officials say otherwise.

But officials both inside and outside the Orioles? organization say the tension in management is reaching a breaking point.

The question is how that tension will be resolved.

Showalter is frustrated with Duquette and wants greater involvement in personnel decisions, sources say. The team, in the view of at least one club official, cannot continue with the same organizational structure.

?If it doesn?t change, it will be a disaster,? the official said.

Duquette added that any issues within the organization would be addressed during the offseason, saying, ?I believe everyone is working toward the same outcome, having a good team, trying to get to the playoffs.?

Showalter echoed that sentiment.

"Dan and I are fine," he said. "Both of us get frustrated with us not being where we want to be. We're concentrating on trying to get in the playoffs. That' how you quiet all these things "play better."

Showalter wants to remain manager as opposed to becoming GM, sources say, and is sensitive to the perception that he is trying to usurp power, a charge that was leveled against him earlier in his career.

Asked specifically if he wanted a greater voice in decision-making, Showalter said, "I get asked all I need to be asked. Everyone's got their input. At the end of the day, somebody's got to make the decisions."

source - Rosenthal

[eddie83]

I think Rosenthal goes out of his way to tweak Angelos that being said it doesn't mean this isn't true. You honestly expect Dan and Buck to say that they aren't getting along?

[eddie83]

Rosenthal, Cafardo and Crasnick have all reported on issues. I guess they are all lying?

[Can_of_corn]

Nothing like an 11-4 run to raise tensions.

[Nevermore]

Yep. All those "unnamed sources." :rolleyestf:

[Il BuonO]

Bowtie guy needs to fill space. And he loves, loves, loves the Orioles.

[OFFNY]

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I remember the Oakland Athletics teams from 1971 through 1976.

They all wanted to kill each other AND kill their team owner (Charles O. Finley), but when it came time to take the field, they took out their anger and frustrations on their opponents.

I would prefer a more harmonious route to success, but at least we know that winning is possible when all is not well behind closed doors.

[vab]

Well all I'll say is, if it comes down between Dan and Buck, it's been real Dan.

[ArtVanDelay]

If this is true then the easy solution is to fire Dan.

[Ohfan67]

Bummer.

[Crazysilver03]

Until this article I didnt know Showalter got $3.5M per year and DD $2M.

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[isestrex]

Is it wrong that I would give these rumors about 70% more attention if they were from another source?

Why is it always Rosenthal... always...

I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of truth to this... but really?

[Frobby]

I believe there could well be some tension. I have no problem with Ken Rosenthal reporting what sources tell him. But just because one or two unnamed people in the organization think the situation is reaching a breaking point and that things can't continue as they are, doesn't make it so.

[sportsfan8703]

It's not like they're battling over the budget. There's really no young guy that isn't getting an opportunity on the team that deserves one. Buck's played like 15 different guys in LF/RF/DH this year. Two things that I can think of

1. Buck knows just how messed up the Toronto thing was and maybe he was over DD then.

2. Maybe Buck is doing like what Jones said he was going to do. I'm sure Buck wasn't happy either that Cruz and Markakis were allowed to leave. I may be wrong but I'm almost certain those decisions were made before Toronto. Buck might not be happy with the impending loss of the FA's.

We may have a situation where our manager and our star player is upset with the GM. But our owner may love our GM for producing decent results given the payroll. I have to think after DD tried to leave us that PA is more of a Buck guy. In fact he hired Buck before he hired DD. Buck sat in on the process. Maybe DD's smartest guy in the room act is getting a little old. Who knows??? We all know that MW is Buck's boy. The writing might be on the wall that he's gone. Hopefully we win out and this all goes away.

[Nevermore]

Before the Toronto thing last winter, I trusted DD to help make our team better. After the Toronto incident and DD's failure to deny that he had anything to do with it, and also DD letting Cruz and Markakis walk and failing to adequately replace them -- I no longer trust DD's baseball judgment. He failed in truly helping the team; the vast majority of players that DD got for the Os in 2015 got released and/or DFA'd.