Due to his wife and other terrible marital problems, Brandon Hyde sorrowfully announced his retirement unexpectedly, and all his team players broke down in tears, but…
All of Brandon Hyde’s teammates sobbed as he abruptly announced his retirement, citing his wife and other horrible marital issues.
Baltimores: The previous time around, there were five captains who put the Baltimore Orioles under water and continued to dive more into the dark seas of the American League East. As it happened, they were merely keeping track of time as one victorious era gave way to another.
Mike Hargrove, Lee Mazzilli, Ray Miller, and others Dave Trembley and Sam Perlozzo. Davey Johnson was followed by everybody when the Orioles won the division in 1997. Before Buck Showalter made his breakthrough in 2012, no one had overseen a successful season, much less a postseason run.
There weren’t any this time. The Orioles’ manager led them out, this time the same person who took the position of the previous winner of the abyss. After replacing Showalter in December 2018, Brandon Hyde persevered through renovations and saw Camden Yards reopen for playoff baseball.
On Tuesday, Hyde turned 50. He will be in the dugout for Game 1 of the Orioles Division Series against the Texas Rangers on Saturday. Not bad for a manager who spent his first three seasons in town suffering through 122 more losses than victories.
Starter John Means, a rookie, said, “It was great of them to give him a chance on the other end of it, because it was so clear in ’19, ’20, and ’21 that it was’rebuild, rebuild’ — you kept hearing that word.” All-Star in the 2019 Orioles’ 108-losing season.
“Knowing that you are rebuilding at the beginning of a season makes it very difficult to manage.” He has stayed here ever since, and it has clearly paid off. He is able to profit from the culture he established.
Elias compared it to having a minor-league manager, saying that victories and defeats are essentially immaterial. “The goal is to create an atmosphere that encourages players to improve.”
Brandon Hyde, along with Following an Orioles victory in 2019, Anthony Santander joined the team during his first season as manager.
When Elias joined the Orioles in November 2018 after serving as deputy general manager for the Houston Astros, there was a lot that needed to be improved. Following Baltimore’s recent collapse to a club-record 115 losses, Elias saw “an expansion kind of vibe” within the team. Elias went to the Winter Meetings without having employed a manager because there were so many gaps in the infrastructure that needed to be filled (analytics, foreign scouting, etc.).
However, the Orioles benefited from knowing who interviewed for positions filled elsewhere by waiting. Elias continued to hear about Hyde, then the bench coach for manager, the more teams he spoke with, with Joe Maddon leading the Cubs in play.
Elias said the CV was flawless: Hyde, a former catcher, had major-league coaching experience with the Marlins and Cubs in addition to minor-league experience as a player, coach, manager, field coordinator, and farm director.
He just seemed like a kind guy, too.
“We had a great time talking baseball,” Elias remarked. We also share a similar perspective on the game, which is helpful since if you and your manager don’t get along, you won’t talk to him as frequently as you should, and things could get out of hand. Because I had witnessed that throughout my career, I believed that to be significant.
Elias was in Hou
in 2014, the summer prior to the team’s success. He participated in the hunt that produced A.J. Hinch, Porter’s replacement, for the Astros.
“I truly believe that my time in Houston, going through all of those managerial interviews and watching us as change managers, gave me a perspective from which I was able to conclude that [Hyde] is one of the most talented managers I’ve ever seen,” Elias stated. “We won’t discard that because we’re not winning games. It was unrelated to him. All we were concerned with was establishing the organization.
Elias stated that during his initial years with Baltimore, he made an effort to keep Hyde informed about the advancement of the minors and involved in important organizational decisions, such as hiring coaches.
when Bo Porter, general manager Jeff Luhnow’s first managerial hire, was let go by the Astros
