Wednesday was a busy afternoon in the Warehouse. Early in the afternoon, the Orioles and manager Buck Showalter were reported to be parting ways. Later on in the evening, The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal struck again with a scoop that Dan Duquette, the executive vice president of baseball operations, is not expected to be retained. That is a lot of upheaval for one day.
Duquette, whose contract is set to expire at this season’s official conclusion, has spent the last several months acting like a man who thinks he’s coming back, perhaps because he had no choice but to do so.