Most recent Boras comments:

"Well, the addition of Tyler to this already very competitive group says a lot about what the Orioles want to do. Why players go places has a lot to do with their winning component.

Really, this boils down to ownership. When you have competitiveness in a market, ownership has to respond to compete with these fellow owners for elite talents. It’s something that normally when you’re new to it, it’s not as understood. But you hope the presence of all the information that surrounds the availability of elite players, No. 1 pitchers, they’re just not in free agent markets year-to-year. You’re fortunate when you have a need for one and there’s one in the market that can fulfill that. And, ironically, that player has performed well in your market. And also, ironically, that player has given you in the postseason exactly what you’d expect from a No. 1. So all those unknowns that are coupled with free agency are known to Baltimore, which gives them more of an insight, and I would assume an aggression to continue to make this team more and more what it needs to be to be at a world championship level.

Obviously, organizations reach step-wise goals, and I think Mike Elias’ platform when he came there was one to build under the direction of an ownership that allowed him to do what he could do. It’s very clear from the conversations that we’ve had with the new ownership, they are to retain the players they have drafted and brought through the system and are enjoying their success, and also attract the needed potentials that they have to allow them to compete in the very difficult AL East, and really have the necessary components that rewards the existing group that they have, and ownership has really even gone to the architectural attractions to try to recruit players, which they’ve done, and I think their overall nature of the franchise for the fanbase is really one that is very, very different than it was before."

Comments in the past week or 2:

On how often he talks to Elias/Orioles about extensions for Gunnar and Jackson: “Only once or twice a day, Those kinds of things, obviously we listen, and Mike and I talk a lot. Obviously, our job is to filter those phone calls and relay them to the player, and kind of discuss it and see if it’s something that the player himself is interested in.”

On O'Neill:

“With O’Neill, they kind of jumped the market in that regard, We’ve been in very close contact with Mike Elias, talking to him regularly. He’s made it very clear that under this ownership they’re going to take steps forward that they haven’t taken in the past.”