New Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said Monday that he would not rush to choose the next O’s manager, which is probably a good thing since he apparently is considering a wide array of candidates and isn’t set on a specific set of qualifications.
He’s also got other outside hires to make, as well as in-house executives to evaluate.
“It’s a full agenda,” he said in a scrum with Oriole reporters after the formal introductory news conference on Monday morning. “The managerial hire does add another dimension to this. We have several roster decisions coming up in the next couple of days that we’re dealing with, and we’re going to be leaning very heavily on the leadership in place here for those decisions, because they know these players better than I do.