The Orioles Have Fired Brandon Hyde As Their Free Fall Continues

Well there ya have it, when a team with World Series goals is one of the worst teams in baseball you have to make changes. That change for the Orioles was manager Brandon Hyde who had been here since 2019. We always thought he would be the guy to get them through the rebuild but nothing more and that’s what ended up happening. Minor league coordinator Tim Cossins was also let go but again, no one is surprised. They’re 15-28 and make way too many mental mistakes. They may be young but they’ve got a ton of experience. I was never anti-Hyde, but some of the moves in game he made did make you scratch your head. 

I’m truly not sure what firing him will do though, baseball is a sport where the manager doesn’t really mean much to a team. He’ll manage the clubhouse and control the vibes in the clubhouse but let’s be real, baseball managers don’t do much. But when you’re bottom of the barrel like this you have to change something. It’s not Hyde’s fault that the front office signed tried to replace Corbin Burnes with Charlie Morton and Kyle Gibson, he’s not the reason Adley Rutschman is batting under .220. But you need to make changes when you’ve hit rock bottom 3-4 times this season, including last night. 

Tony Mansolino will be the interim manager and we’ll see if he can help get the team back on track. Maybe they channel the Phillies from a few years back, maybe they continue to bottom out. But David Rubenstein and company simply had to make a change. The hunt for a new manager begins now. 

We thought the Os would be hunting for the top seed in the AL, not a new manager before the end of May. A disaster of a season claims its first few victims, absolutely have to nail this next hire. Have to.