Same faces, new responsibilities. 

The Orioles are changing the titles and roles of six front office members, a source with direct knowledge of the moves confirmed to The Baltimore Sun on Saturday, including a promotion to assistant general manager and a new point man leading their MLB draft. 

Matt Blood, the Orioles’ vice president overseeing player development and domestic scouting since October 2023, is shifting to vice president of player and staff development. He will now be responsible for overseeing front office support of first-year manager Craig Albernaz, his staff and the sports medicine and performance departments. 

The Orioles are also promoting Brendan Fournie to assistant GM, adding a third person in that role under president of baseball operations Mike Elias alongside Sig Mejdal and Eve Rosenbaum. 

Fournie has overseen the Orioles’ baseball analytics department since December 2021, when he was hired away from the Houston Astros. In his new role, Fournie will focus on baseball economics, advanced scouting and salary arbitration while assisting with roster and transaction management. 

Baltimore still has a vacancy at GM since promoting Elias last spring. He has continued to oversee day-to-day GM duties in the meantime and said during his end-of-season news conference in September that a hire “may be this offseason, it may not be.” 

With Blood no longer overseeing the draft, that responsibility will now fall upon Will Robertson. The Orioles’ director of pro personnel is being promoted to vice president of domestic scouting. Robertson, a 30th-round draft pick of Baltimore in 2017, has been working his way up the Orioles’ front office since retiring from playing in 2020. 

The Orioles are also promoting three scouting managers to larger roles. Chad Tatum will be named assistant director of domestic scouting, Hendrik Herz will take over as assistant director of draft operations and Kevin Carter will be their assistant director of pro scouting. 

MASNSports.com was first to report the front offices changes. 

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