{"id":271498,"date":"2025-11-09T05:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271498\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:58:10","slug":"orioles-shake-up-front-office-with-new-assistant-gm-draft-director-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271498\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles shake up front office with new assistant GM, draft director: source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE, Md. \u2014 Same faces, new responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Blood, the Orioles\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (2)<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2025\/11\/08\/orioles-front-office-shake-up-assistant-gm-draft-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">full story<\/a> on The Baltimore Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE, Md. \u2014 Same faces, new responsibilities. The Orioles are changing the titles and roles of six front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-271498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}