Given his background as a scouting director and the meticulous planning that likely went into his candidacy and presentation for the Orioles general manager job he ultimately won, Mike Elias won't need the contrived and likely uneventful deadline that comes Tuesday night when rosters must be set ahead of next month's Rule 5 draft for an inventory of the farm system and the major league roster he's inherited.
Yet after he's announced Monday alongside John and Louis Angelos as the team's new boss, that's where his attention will go, if it hasn't already. The candidates are right-hander Dillon Tate, catcher Martin Cervenka and left-hander Luis González.