After a weekend in which two pillars of the Orioles' recent run of relevance — manager Buck Showalter and center fielder Adam Jones — were feted at Camden Yards as their contracts with the club run out after this month and their returns are anything but assured, a third piece of that resurgence, executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette, was quietly back to work Monday planning for a future that's not exactly clear either.
Duquette, who went through the clubhouse to thank players after Sunday’s season-ending 4-0 win against the Houston Astros, said Monday that he expects "the owners are going to make those decisions soon" as the postseason unpacking of the worst season in franchise history for the 115-loss Orioles begins.