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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Baltimore Orioles general manager Mike Elias was named Major League Baseball’s executive of the year on Tuesday after the team achieved the American League’s best record for the first time since 1997.
Baltimore went 101-61 with a payroll of $67 million, 29th among the 30 teams and ahead of only Oakland. After their first 100-win season since 1980, the Orioles were swept in the Division Series by the eventual World Series champion Texas Rangers.
Elias, 40, is a 2006 graduate of Yale, where he attended the Bulldogs. He started with the St. Louis Cardinals as a scout after college, became an amateur scouting manager and joined the Houston Astros in 2011 as a special assistant to general manager Jeff Luhnow.
Elias was promoted to director of amateur scouting in 2012 and assistant general manager for player acquisitions in 2016. The Orioles hired him as GM in 2018.
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Voting was done among the 30 teams before the postseason. Atlanta GM Alex Anthopoulos finished second and Arizona GM Mike Hazen was third.
Among the players drafted by Baltimore were All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman and rookie outfielder Gunnar Henderson. The Orioles acquired pitchers Kyle Bradish and Yennier Cano in trades, pitcher Tyler Wells in the winter meeting draft and reliever Cionel Pérez off waivers.
Oakland executive vice president of baseball operations Billy Beane won the inaugural award in 2018, followed by Tampa Bay general manager Erik Neander in 2019, Los Angeles Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman in 2020, San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi in 2021 and Cleveland President of Baseball Operations Chris Antonetti last year.
The award was announced on the first full day of the annual general managers’ meetings.
This story has been corrected to show that the Orioles’ record was 101-61, not 101-67.
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