On Friday afternoon, USA Today writer Bob Nightengale tweeted that Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter is expected to be dismissed at the end of this season, and that GM Dan Duquette will likely receive an extension from the club.
I’m going to handle the two implications separately, and focus on Showalter here.
We all kind of expected this would be the case, with the Orioles suffering through their worst season in team history, but there hasn’t been any official news from the Baltimore front office on the matter as of yet. This is all just rumor.