The moribund Philadelphia Phillies announced on Monday afternoon that, following the 2015 season, former Orioles GM Andy MacPhail will take over the role of president in that organization. It was not so long ago that MacPhail came to Baltimore to help revive a team that was stuck in a years-long slump that showed no signs of subsiding.
Though MacPhail was not still here when the Orioles finally turned things around on the field and started winning again, the pieces that he assembled were, and still are, integral to the team's success. The 2012 Wild Card-winning season, the 2014 AL East championship season that ended in a heart-breaking ALCS loss to the Royals, neither of these would have ever happened if MacPhail had not come to Baltimore.