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Houston #Astros assistant GM Mike Elias, barring a sudden change of heart,will be the new GM of the Baltimore #Orioles
https://twitter.com/bnightengale/status/1062569981269938176?s=21I'm pretty stoked. Of our rumored candidates, Elias was the one I wanted most.
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Mike Elias The assistant general manager of the Houston Astros under Jeff Luhnow, Elias would only be the latest to leave the vaunted front office of the 2017 World Series champions this offseason after a handful of departures already. What could make him valuable for the Astros to keep him around is the same thing that makes him intriguing to the Orioles.
With Houston, Elias serves as the domestic and international scouting director. His first draft with the club was in 2012, when he steered them toward star shortstop Carlos Correa at No. 1 overall, and their drafts yielded more major leaguers than any other club from 2013 to 2017. His amateur scouting roots come from the similarly prolific St. Louis Cardinals organization, where he was a scout and later the manager of amateur scouting. Houston has also been successful on the international front, supplying the depth for several major trades from their Latin American efforts.
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Mike Elias
Elias has been the Houston Astros’ assistant general manager since August 2016. According to the Astros’ media guide, Elias “oversees the Astros amateur scouting department and provides leadership and oversight to the Astros player development department.”
He joined Houston in 2012, and worked with GM Jeff Luhnow in St. Louis and Houston.
Elias, who was a left-handed pitcher at Yale, supervised the drafts that selected Carlos Correa, Alex Bregman and Lance McCullers Jr.
“He’d be a good fit,” said someone who worked with Elias. “He’s a good blend of mixing science and the old school. An interesting guy.”
The Astros, who won the World Series in 2017 and were eliminated in five games by the Red Sox in the American League Championship Series this season, are perhaps the most analytically based organization in the game.”
Sarah Gelles, the head of the Orioles’ analytic team, is joining Houston.