Dec. 1: The Rays announced Monday that Hyde has joined the organization as a senior advisor to the baseball operations department.
Nov. 26: Former Orioles skipper Brandon Hyde is in talks with the Rays about taking a position within the organization, reports Robert Murray of Fansided. The two parties have been discussing a senior advisor role that would see Hyde work with both the major league club and various minor league affiliates, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times adds. Murray indicates that while an agreement has not yet been finalized, Hyde is expected to end up working for the Rays for the upcoming season.
Hyde, 52, managed the Orioles from 2019-25. In his seven seasons with Baltimore, his clubs produced a 421-491 record. Judging any manager based on wins and losses alone is a frivolous endeavor, though, and that’s especially true of Hyde, whose first season in Baltimore coincided with a complete teardown and rebuild of the organization. Following the 2018 season, the Orioles dismissed general manager Dan Duquette, hiring current president of baseball operations Mike Elias in his place. Elias installed Hyde as his new skipper but also gutted the roster and spent several seasons tanking while working to rebuild the farm system and modernize the infrastructure of the organization.
Hyde oversaw winning teams each season from 2022-24 and was named 2023 AL Manager of the Year after the O’s won the American League East and piled up 101 victories. The Orioles went to the postseason in both 2023 and 2024 but were swept out of the playoffs both times — first in the ALDS by the eventual World Series champion Rangers and next by the Royals in the 2024 Wild Card round of play.
The Orioles entered 2025 with big expectations but floundered out of the gates thanks to a clear lack of starting pitching and a lineup that wasn’t performing as expected. By mid-May, the 15-28 Orioles had seen their season already slip away. Hyde was dismissed from his managerial post and replaced by third base coach Tony Mansolino on an interim basis.
Prior to his time at the helm in Baltimore, Hyde was a bench coach and first base coach with the Cubs. Before that, he spent two seasons as the Marlins’ bench coach plus several years as a manager, hitting coach and field coordinator in Miami’s minor league ranks. A catcher and first baseman in his playing days, Hyde also spent four years playing in the White Sox’ system before moving onto the coaching and managerial phase of his career.
He made questionable decisions and mishandled his pitchers often. Got out managed in the Texas playoff series in ‘23 and didn’t do much better in the royals series in “24.
He’s a good baseball guy and seemed to be able to handle the clubhouse until the last part of “24 and definitely seemed to lose it completely this past season. A change was more than necessary but it doesn’t mean that he cannot evolve, make better decisions and be a valued contributor with the Rays. I hope they work well together and he’s able to get back to managing again soon if that’s his goal.
Red Forman and especially Kitty would agree. Also appreciated Hyde around the clubhouse. Moreso than that goof Kelso
Agreed. He doesn’t seem incapable of improving and learning from his experience. In regards to this last year in my opinion he was the last person to blame for the O’s absolutely underachieving. He just happened to be the patsy, which is what managers end up being most of the time. He seems like a solid baseball guy though as you say, he’ll hone his craft I imagine.
It was a mixed bag here in regard to Hyde. Some fans absolutely despised him and were calling for a replacement all the way back to the ‘23 season. Then, there was another group who absolutely loved him. You can’t make everyone happy all of the time but the group that was critical of him was certainly much louder than the way displeasure towards a manager typically works around the league. Some felt as though an experienced manager should have been brought in after the ‘22 season because of the second half play and breakout of the team. I tend to think that maybe an experienced manager would have gotten us some more wins in the two playoff appearances but I don’t believe that it likely would have ended much differently or with a World Series win – a deeper playoff run, yes but not all the way.
He was a decent guy, very friendly and personable with the media and did all of the required pre and post game stuff. He was generally a fairly level headed manager but he had his moments of fire. Specifically, when playing the Yankees at home, in the bottom of a late inning, a Yankee pitcher hit Heston Kjerstad in the head. Hyde went out to check on him and somehow ended up with his helmet. There was some chirping from the Yankee dugout and suddenly Hyde was walking very briskly toward the Yankees dugout, alone, after throwing the helmet in that direction. Obviously the dugouts and bullpens emptied but that was probably the best example of him getting fired up. Personally, I liked it in that situation.
Yeah, I think he’s definitely in the process of putting things together for another opportunity, so it would not surprise me to see him changing because of improvement and kinda reinvent himself as a different type of manager.
He didn’t really get outmanaged in the Texas series. In game 1, the offense choked and squandered a perfectly good start from Bradish. Game 2, Grayson got shelled. Game 3, Dean got shelled and the offense crapped their pants. The O’s hitters just sucked and the pitchers withered under the big lights, except Bradish.
While there is no doubt that certain things happened that you mentioned, it was a fairly discussed subject back then and multiple industry experts believed Hyde was out managed by Bochy.
Just from a quick search online (I’m positive there are articles that go into detail) –
Yes, many analysts and fans believe Bruce Bochy out-managed Brandon Hyde during the 2023 American League Division Series (ALDS), where the Texas Rangers swept the Baltimore Orioles in three games.
Bochy, the Rangers’ manager, led his team to a World Series championship that year, which included the sweep of Hyde’s top-seeded Orioles. There was a significant amount of discourse in the media about Bochy’s superior management, particularly concerning pitching and bullpen decisions, which some felt was the difference in the series.
In fact, some baseball writers argued that Bochy should have won the 2023 AL Manager of the Year award over Hyde, who ultimately received the honor. Hyde’s Orioles had a 22-win improvement from the previous season and an AL-best 101 wins, but Bochy’s guidance of the Rangers to a World Series title from a 90-72 record was seen by many as a more impressive feat of managerial skill.
Both managers have since parted ways with their respective teams, with Hyde fired midway through the 2025 season and Bochy and the Rangers mutually agreeing to part ways after the 2025 season.
That’s just an AI crapout summary and a lazy paste. How can a guy get outmanaged when his team got annihilated, and brutally so? Answer: he can’t. The team got outplayed in every aspect. Nothing Hyde could have done would have changed that. That team was spent. Without Aaron Hicks in game 2, the offense would have been totally absent. That’s the facts. Have some respect and keep that garbage AI summary junk out of real conversation. To say pitching management was the difference in the series is laughable. The O’s entire staff got shellacked. The O’s entire lineup not named Aaron Hicks failed to show up. The end.
Rather than argue further, I’ll just leave this here… series score: Texas 21, Baltimore 11. Almost two runs scored by Texas for every run Baltimore scored. Take away Aaron Hicks’ 5-RBI game 2, and it’s Texas 21, Baltimore 6. But yeah, Hyde’s fault. Sure.
I’m not arguing with you at all and I very clearly stated that I pasted what a quick search online returned – I didn’t claim to do any in depth analysis for you, I was simply giving you the example of what the overview states. I’ve seen and read pieces that discussed the topic in detail. There are multiple baseball experts who stated that Hyde was out managed, it is what it is, it’s not an argument. Finally, I never once said the playoff losses were all Hyde’s fault, so not sure where you are getting that from. Obviously he doesn’t play on the field, we know that.
There’s nothing to discuss in detail. They got outplayed. Not outmanaged. Also your AI cut & paste includes an absurd statement about Bochy should have won MOTY because he won the WS, but the voting occurs before the postseason… so not even catching that egregious AI failure just reflects that much more poorly on your responses.
Here’s the thing, you are so hung up on some stupid AI overview, when I’ve clearly already stated, multiple times now, it was copied and pasted, I didn’t write it, never stated I did and only provided it as a general guide to you if you wanted to do your own research from there.
I don’t need to debate this with you. He was outmanaged, whether it be a single instance or multiple. Just because you don’t want to acknowledge that or have some stupid gripe over a AI summary doesn’t make it not true.
Some people just want to argue over the dumbest things on here. You don’t agree, great, move on and stop being a miserable know-it-all arguing over something that was very clearly cited as being a general overview copied and pasted.
Again, it was used to provide a simple explanation for further exploration if you so choose, not as a basis for some petty argument over it being exactly what it was. You don’t need to agree with numerous industry experts or anyone else, that’s your choice. I’m done going back and forth over something so trivial.
Fan – next time don’t post something so stupid, then.
Tell me you didn’t watch that series without saying you didn’t watch the series.
Bochy got O’Hearn out of the lineup without so much as looking at a pitch because Hyde was so preprogrammed to follow L v R protocol.
Single handedly lost game 2
Nah. See run differential. The end.
If he makes questionable decisions then he’ll fot right in with Kevin Cash and the Rays
I wouldn’t trust Hyde to be more than a bench coach. He has no idea how to manage a pitching staff and players were never held accountable for the failures to make adjustments at the plate or for what became routine stretches of poor defensive effort in his last two seasons. He was often dealt a raw hand by the front office in the lack of talent on the roster but he also failed routinely to utilize the talent he did have properly.
The lack of accountability is by far the largest concern regarding Hyde. Those guys regressed under him. And the dismal, long adjustment periods were and are unacceptable.
Just don’t hire Dr. Jekyll as the team physician.
What about Fez? Not a doc but took chemistry. Hilarity ensued.
He did a good job developing the players in the rebuild. In game decisons won’t be a factor in this job. Seems like a good fit.
If the Rays are planning to tank, Hyde would be a perfect advisor.
@Kyle Grantham
Slightly better chances to get the #1 pick. Load up again and go for another cheap run at the playoffs before selling them off again.
It’s the Florida way of doing baseball
He wasn’t the problem in Baltimore. That would be Elias, who is still making questionable or downright stupid moves this off-season.