This just came out this morning, courtesy of Ken Rosenthal from Fox Sports. It looks like that there will be a big shakeup in the front office. The news won’t be formally announced until later on this week.
The Orioles, shaking up their front office as Opening Day nears, are replacing farm director David Stockstill, according to major-league sources.
Stockstill will move into another position, sources said. His brother, John, the team’s director of international scouting, will take over some of David’s duties. Assistant farm director Tripp Norton and field coordinator Brian Graham will assume expanded roles.
David Stockstill, 52, has been the Orioles’ farm director since Nov. 3, 2004 and a member of the organization since 1994.
The Orioles will portray the change in a positive light, one source said, but club officials had grown increasingly frustrated with David Stockstill’s communication skills and approach to player development.
Andy MacPhail, the Orioles’ president of baseball operations, inherited David Stockstill when he took over on June 20, 2007. John Stockstill had worked for MacPhail with the Chicago
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Here’s a take from Peter Schmuck, giving credit to Orioles Hangout for breaking the news…
The Orioles are going to announce some administrative changes over the next few days, though they have been brewing for some time. Dave and John Stockstill essentially will change places in the front office, with John taking over the minor league operation and Dave assuming some of John’s international scouting duties.
We probably should have realized this a couple of weeks ago, since it was obvious that Dave was traveling internationally more and John was spending more and more time around the minor league operation, but it is kind of an inside baseball situation.
The word got out this week that the Orioles were going to make a front office announcement, and speculation about it first surfaced on Orioles Hangout, but Andy MacPhail told reporters he would not announce anything for several days. He can do that if he wants, but my buddy Ken Rosenthal put it up on FoxSports.com this morning.
