introduced free agent prize Pete Alonso<\/a> to the media in December, super agent Scott Boras said the slugger\u2019s meeting with Albernaz was particularly memorable.<\/p>\n\u201cHe did a remarkable job of making someone in a room understand how that would be if he played here,\u201d Boras said. \u201cThat\u2019s a very hard thing to do in an hour, but it says a lot about communication skills and what they do.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that meeting, I pulled Mike [Elias] aside and I said, \u2018Something happened here. I\u2019ve been in many of these meetings. Something happened here where I felt the player and the organization felt something beyond where you can have execution and have greatness unfold.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
On the \u201cBanner Baseball Show,\u201d Albernaz joined co-hosts Paul Mancano and Jon Meoli to discuss what happened in that critical meeting that helped Baltimore seal the deal. Then, Albernaz discussed his plans for spring training, the team\u2019s acquisition of starter Shane Baz and more.<\/p>\n
Tune in at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Albernaz has already made an impact on the Orioles before managing a big league game. When the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,70219,5,70220,70221,25289,4,125,13128],"class_list":["post-529357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-barbed-wire","tag-baseball","tag-department-of-corrections","tag-hagerstown","tag-jail","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-prison"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115928535441070821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529357","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=529357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}