Tucked into the media briefing that’s now becoming a regular occurrence amid a losing streak for executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias this week was a feeling of the Orioles rebuild that even its greatest apologists have tried to avoid: what’s happening with this organization is not an infallible process.
He maintained, as he has, that rebuilds aren’t fun and are hard to watch unfold on a daily basis, but reiterated that the Orioles were so far behind the rest of the league in so many ways that he had no choice but to take this route.