{"id":355050,"date":"2025-10-01T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/355050\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:55:09","slug":"mlbtr-podcast-mike-elias-on-the-state-of-the-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/355050\/","title":{"rendered":"MLBTR Podcast: Mike Elias On The State Of The Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest episode of the MLB Trade Rumors Podcast is now live on\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>, and wherever you get your podcasts! Make sure you subscribe as well! You can also use the player at\u00a0this link<\/a>\u00a0to listen, if you don\u2019t use Spotify or Apple for podcasts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by\u00a0Orioles president of baseball operations Mike Elias to discuss\u2026<\/p>\n

Elias\u2019s promotion<\/a> from general manager to president of baseball operations (1:45)
\nWhy the Orioles underperformed in 2025 (3:30)
\nThe club\u2019s lack of investment<\/a> in free agent pitching (5:25)
\nThe decision making about playing time for prospects when they don\u2019t find immediate big league success (9:20)
\nHow Adley Rutschman<\/a> and Samuel Basallo<\/a> can co-exist on the roster (12:35)
\nGetting six prospects from the Padres in the Ryan O\u2019Hearn<\/a> and Ram\u00f3n Laureano<\/a> trade<\/a> (14:50)
\nTrading<\/a> Bryan Baker<\/a> to the Rays for a draft pick (16:55)
\nSeeing the potential in O\u2019Hearn before his breakout (18:45)<\/p>\n

Plus, Steve Adams of MLB Trade Rumors joins the show to discuss\u2026<\/p>\n

Check out our past episodes!<\/p>\n

The podcast intro and outro song \u201cSo Long\u201d is provided courtesy of the band Showoff.\u00a0 Check out their Facebook page here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Tim Heitman, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest episode of the MLB Trade Rumors Podcast is now live on\u00a0Spotify,\u00a0Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[1079,7900,143,47,2538,5,13151,1509,4,125,23773,74,1495,626,7326],"class_list":{"0":"post-355050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-adley-rutschman","9":"tag-alek-manoah","10":"tag-baltimore","11":"tag-baltimore-orioles","12":"tag-baltimoreorioles","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-bryan-baker","15":"tag-mike-elias","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-orioles","18":"tag-paul-toboni","19":"tag-pete-alonso","20":"tag-ramon-laureano","21":"tag-ryan-ohearn","22":"tag-samuel-basallo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115299727937757700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}