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5 candidates to replace Buck Showalter as Orioles manager

By Brad Berreman

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 21: Buck Showalter #26 of the Baltimore Orioles looks on from th ebench during th egame against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2018 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 21: Buck Showalter #26 of the Baltimore Orioles looks on from th ebench during th egame against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on September 21, 2018 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) /
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2. Mike Bordick

Bordick has also surfaced as a candidate to replace Showalter. He spent a chunk of his playing career with the Orioles (1997-2000, 2001-2002) and he has been a part-time color analyst for Orioles games on MASN since 2012.

The knock on Bordick would no managerial experience. But he was a roving minor league instructor for the Blue Jays after his playing career was over, before re-joining the Orioles organization as a minor league coach in 2010 and serving as temporary bullpen coach in 2011. So he does have some, if minimal, coaching experience.

The current template for MLB managerial hires points to someone like Bordick-a former player who has worked in television (Aaron Boone) and presumably enters the job with no biased against analytics and other new data to drive decisions from the dugout.

Back in June Bordick said he would like to manage someday, but didn’t feel qualified to take over the Orioles if Showalter were to be gone.

"I think every player would like to manage,” Bordick said. “But I don’t really feel like now is the time for me to even be brought up. I haven’t really done a lot, as far as baseball ops stuff goes. Maybe one day, but I don’t know that I would ever think of doing it honestly, without being on the field for an extended period of time. I think I’d just be doing the game a disservice, especially the guys that have put so much time in through the minor leagues that actually deserve opportunities to manage at the major league level."

If the Orioles want to interview him, it seems like Bordick wouldn’t turn it down. Even if he doesn’t think he’s qualified, that wouldn’t be his ultimate decision.

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