Mike Elias

Up here on the dais with us today, we have Orioles president of baseball operations and general manager, Mike Elias, Orioles control owner, David Rubenstein, and the new manager of the Baltimore Orioles, Craig Albernaz.

Before we get into today's program, I'd like to recognize a couple of people in the audience.

First, Cleveland Guardians manager, Steven Vogt, and his wife, Alyssa.

Thank you both for being here today.

Members of Craig's family, his wife, Genevieve, his sons, CJ and Norman, and his daughter, Gigi, thank you all for being here.

With that, I'll turn it over to Orioles President of Baseball Operations and General Manager, Mike Elias.

Thanks, Nate.

Good morning, everybody, and thank you for coming.

Big day for us and the organization.

So much to say about a hire like this and the importance of it.

The job managing the Baltimore Orioles is rich with tradition.

Some of the best managers

in our game have occupied this spot over the years and so when we are approaching a higher process like this, it is a full organizational effort and it's something that we put every bit of our capability behind and do our best to

get it right and have it be something that's going to impact the organization for a long time and create a lot of stability around the organization.

And I want to acknowledge all of the baseball ops and other aspects of this organization, ownership, so much of our leadership getting involved in this decision in what was a very thorough process and a very extensive search.

I also want to thank the Cleveland organization, the Guardians, Chris Antonetti, Steven Vogt.

I think it's amazing that you came all the way across country to be a part of this press conference.

And the graciousness they afforded us in giving us time to talk to Craig as we also talk to many other candidates.

This is a process that takes several weeks.

If not more than that, requires every resource that the department has at its availability.