Update: Elias brings in Sig Mejdal:

[Moose Milligan]

Just now, interloper said:

Man I mean once they see that these moves are universally well-received by the baseball world at large, I am hoping that's some reassuring confirmation for them to continue this course. It has to feel good to not be the heel for once. 

Yep, agreed.  

[weams]

7 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

If it's cliches by the minute, Bordick would be on waivers immediately.

He might be manager!

[weams]

5 minutes ago, Dr. Unk said:

Another Festivus miracle!

[Frobby]

8 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

If it's cliches by the minute, Bordick would be on waivers immediately.

Mike “Punch Out” Bordick?

[WarehouseChatter]

On 11/15/2018 at 8:51 AM, weams said:

Agreed, It it laborious. But the word is that Sig is coming to town. 

https://www.lonestarball.com/2018/11/14/18095287/mlb-rumors-mike-elias-sig-mejdal-baltimore-orioles-houston-astros-general-manager

This is great news indeed!  Just found out about it.  We are mov'in and shak'in.  Curious as to Elias'/Syd's throughs are on Zoellner!  Any analytical hope here? 

[weams]

 

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, weams said:

He might be manager!

I hope people don't associate his announcing with his baseball knowledge. He's a smart baseball guy and a good instructor. He's a positive guy by nature who may be a good fit for a young club. Besides, if it gets him out of the booth I'm all for it! lol

Personally I'd like to see Gary Kendell given a shot.

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Mike “Punch Out” Bordick?

Mike "Head on a swivel, picking up some steaks" Bordick

[interloper]

2 minutes ago, weams said:

 

I don't know how to handle that kind of organizational competence. What do I do with my hands.

[weams]

And en Español 

 

[Diehard_O's_Fan]

The Orioles have gone from an organization that has been laughed at to an organization that is bringing in some of the most intelligent people in baseball. Don't wake me up if I am dreaming.

[weams]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sig_Mejdal

Quote

While working for NASA, Mejdal had a side job as the chief quantitative analyst for Sam Walker's fantasy baseball team Streetwalkers Baseball Club,^[10][11] which was participating in the Tout Wars competition's "Battle of the Experts."^[10] The fantasy team would later become the subject of Walker's book: Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball.^[9]

In 2005, Sig Mejdal was recruited to do sabermetrics for the St. Louis Cardinals' new analytics department.^[12] He took 22 months of data from college baseball games and ran it through an algorithm to determine the likely performance and stats baseball players would achieve.^[13] According to Sports Illustrated, "[o]ver the next seven seasons the Cardinals would draft more players who became big leaguers than any other organization."^[4]He was promoted to senior quantitative analyst in 2008^[14] and director of amateur draft analysis in January 2011.^[15][16] Mejdal created a formula to predict the risk of injury to baseball players^[17] and contributed a section on injury probability to The Bill James Handbook.^[18]

In 2012, Mejdal became the Director of Decision Sciences for the Houston Astros, where he supported recruitment decisions based on physical tests and historical player performance.^[2][7][19] Hiring Mejdal to apply an analytics-based decision tree on their player choices was part of the effort to revitalize the team and address performance issues in prior seasons.^[4] He helped the team create the STOUT system, named after the combination of "stat" and "scout," for making player choices.^[20] The system was criticized for de-humanizing players, but after trading off some players and making new recruits, the Astro's farm system became ranked among the best in baseball.^[4] The Astros also used analytics to persuade players that were uncomfortable with non-traditional positions on the field to embrace shifts, which the team now uses very heavily.^[4][21]

In 2015, Mejdal was one of the team's advisers whose login credentials were believed to have been used to hack into the team's database

 

[weams]

A SIG-nificant Hire

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2018/11/sig-mejdal-joining-orioles-front-office.html

[weams]

14 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I hope people don't associate his announcing with his baseball knowledge. He's a smart baseball guy and a good instructor. He's a positive guy by nature who may be a good fit for a young club. Besides, if it gets him out of the booth I'm all for it! lol

Personally I'd like to see Gary Kendell given a shot.

I had the good fortune of attending a Dan Connolly event with Mike in a very small group.  Mike was witty, sharp, and had ribald stories to tell. It was easy to see that he was a fun man and one that had a wealth of baseball knowledge. The story of how he became an announcer has been told in a game of telephone. Let it suffice to say that is not his forte. 

[LookitsPuck]

Respect to the Angelos sons for giving Elias autonomy. Really love the Sig acquisition and title. Nicely done, Elias. Keep rolling. Night and day difference to see an analytics focused GM come in and make waves both in words and actions.