The Orioles are in Philadelphia for a two-game series beginning Tuesday. They will run into a lot of old friends in the Phillies’ front office.
President of baseball operations Andy MacPhail was a former Orioles general manager; Phillies farm director Joe Jordan led the Orioles’ amateur scouting department; and Phillies vice president and general manager Matt Klentak was the Orioles’ director of baseball operations under MacPhail. That’s just some of the former Baltimore front office personnel in Philadelphia.
They have the Phillies just three games back in the National League East and right in the middle of the wild-card battle.