This past offseason Andy MacPhail left the Baltimore Orioles after spending over four seasons as the President of Baseball Operations, and upon his departure the feeling among Orioles fans was that he had failed miserably.
Eventually Dan Duquette would be hired as MacPhail’s replacement, and Duquette would quickly make his mark on the O’s by swinging a trade for Jason Hammel and Matt Lindstrom, and bringing in several key arms like Taiwanese born Wei-Yin Chen and relievers Luis Ayala and Darren O’Day.
The foundation, though, the real guts of this Orioles ball club, has been in place for years and MacPhail—or “MacFail,” as some Orioles fans have unfairly renamed him—is responsible.