Even as new Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias and his top deputy, assistant general manager Sig Mejdal, look to build out the team's staff, the responsibility they'll take in crafting another contending baseball team in Baltimore appears to be significant.
That was the theme of his first day of comments Monday at baseball's winter meetings, whether in response to how he'd structure the organization and whether there would be a separate farm director and director of amateur scouting, or why the previous holders of those jobs were let go, or where he saw the current state of the Orioles' farm system.