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20 minutes ago, tntoriole said:

Thanks, Tony!  I agree completely.  And watching the press conference, the word that was used relentlessly, probably 50-75 times, was “process”.  Which is a good place to build from. 

I'm pretty sure they sold t-shirts in Houston that said "process". 

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9 minutes ago, canonfaz said:

I'm pretty sure they sold t-shirts in Houston that said "process". 

Maybe the O's marketing will have one that says "progress"

Yeah, by definition anything above 47 wins would be "progress," but they have to make lemonade out of the lemons somehow. ?

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1 hour ago, mdbdotcom said:

No time to take a lap after his big day. Tomorrow is the last day that an organization can add its own minor league players to the major league roster and protect them from the Rule 5 draft. I suspect he wouldn't take that lap, anyway.

He took the time to do a Reddit Q & A. Says a lot about him.

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Sounded like any “smart” message board poster. However, anyone can talk about analytics and international focus. Now let’s hope he can execute. That’s where differentiation will become apparent.

He certainly seems like about as good of a hire as we could have made and his track record is impressive. That makes me hopeful.

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1 hour ago, canonfaz said:

I'm pretty sure they sold t-shirts in Houston that said "process". 

It may have been a deliberate choice by all three to use the word over and over, but I suspect it was also maybe just a bit of nervousness and unfamiliarity with this new “process” .  No biggie, minor detail. 

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4 minutes ago, tntoriole said:

It may have been a deliberate choice by all three to use the word over and over, but I suspect it was also maybe just a bit of nervousness and unfamiliarity with this new “process” .  No biggie, minor detail. 

The 76ers also made a habit of using the term.  I'm sure it was intentional.

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Nice update and take Tony! I think the ownership decision making shift is just about as big a news as bringing in Elias.

For everyone else, are there any threads discussing moves Elias was directly involved with during his time with Astros? Any key Astros players on his list?

 

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Refreshing is the right word.  I think most of us would have been happy if Cherington were the hire based on his background and previous success.  I think most of us would have been disappointed if Colletti was the hire. The most illuminating and hopeful thing to me was the fact that the Angelos brothers went out and looked for the best candidate.  Not the one with previous experience, not the one who would win a press conference.  No one turned them down to interview, no one pulled their name out of consideration.   Based on Houston's recent experience dealing with the Orioles on the cancelled Britton trade I would have thought that Mike Elias would have been cautioned by the Astros' GM and owner to be leery of Baltimore.  

They said they spent 25-30 hours interviewing Mike Elias.  They were impressed and convinced he was the right hire.  Based on his background and first impression I think they are right.  Only time will truly tell but for the first time in a long time I feel like the Orioles will build a first class modern management team.  

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1 hour ago, The Goob said:

Refreshing is the right word.  I think most of us would have been happy if Cherington were the hire based on his background and previous success.  I think most of us would have been disappointed if Colletti was the hire. The most illuminating and hopeful thing to me was the fact that the Angelos brothers went out and looked for the best candidate.  Not the one with previous experience, not the one who would win a press conference.  No one turned them down to interview, no one pulled their name out of consideration.   Based on Houston's recent experience dealing with the Orioles on the cancelled Britton trade I would have thought that Mike Elias would have been cautioned by the Astros' GM and owner to be leery of Baltimore.  

They said they spent 25-30 hours interviewing Mike Elias.  They were impressed and convinced he was the right hire.  Based on his background and first impression I think they are right.  Only time will truly tell but for the first time in a long time I feel like the Orioles will build a first class modern management team.  

Well, one person apparently did. But I'm just nitpicking. I agree with you and others that this is an exciting hire and bodes well for ownership under the Angelos boys. 

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I'm cautiously optimistic about the Elias hire.  As has been said, there is obviously the unknown about how effectively he'll transition from being an assistant to the top guy, but on paper, I can't complain one bit about the hire, and he was a guy who seemed all along to be a very strong choice.  I also got a good vibe from Louis and John Angelos.  That's the real factor here, are they going to learn from their father's experience, and will they turn out to be good owners.  Fingers crossed.

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