SARASOTA, Fla. — Before the Orioles held their first official workout of spring training, executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias took a moment to acknowledge manager Brandon Hyde’s uncommon feat.

The Orioles are not the first team to undergo a rebuild, with both Elias and Hyde enduring one with their previous organizations before overseeing Baltimore’s. But Hyde is the rare manager to survive one, with the Orioles beginning 2023 with their eyes on the playoffs and him in position to lead them there.

Hyde’s Orioles posted one of the majors’ five worst records each of his first three seasons before breaking out with a 31-game improvement in 2022. Even before last year’s success, Hyde was under contract for 2023, and although Elias declined to get into specifics on their contract Thursday, he said he hoped both he and Hyde would be in Baltimore for years to come.

“You can look at the job that we’ve done rebuilding this team, and I know he and I are very proud of it,” Elias said. “Obviously, we have an outstanding working relationship so far that’s been very successful, in my opinion, and productive for the team. I think that people are, for better or worse, gonna have to get used to he and I here for a while. I think we’re gonna have a lot of success going forward, and he’s done a great job.”Elias was a top front office deputy for much of the Houston Astros’ rebuild, where Bo Porter weathered two losing seasons before A.J. Hinch inherited a team that then reached the playoffs and won the World Series two years later. Hyde was on Rich Renteria’s Chicago Cubs staff in 2014, remaining on when the organization replaced Renteria with Joe Maddon when it was ready to compete the next year.

The Orioles have reached that stage, and Hyde remains. Their 2022 season earned Hyde a runner-up finish in voting for American League Manager of the Year, recognizing the team’s premature turnaround after he entered the season with the worst managerial winning percentage in the past seven decades.

“I feel proud of the organization, how far we’ve come,” Hyde said. “You look at our spring training roster, and you’re really encouraged by the amount of talent that’s there, and we’re still fairly inexperienced, and we have a lot of young dudes that haven’t been in the big leagues yet that are incredibly talented, and it’s really, really exciting. So to be able to kind of get to this point, it’s not easy to do, and I give Mike and the front office a ton of credit for the way they’ve drafted and signed players and claimed the right guys.

“It’s nice to kind of get over the hump.”

Neither Hyde’s nor Elias’ contract statuses have been made public. In reference to Hyde’s contract, Elias said it’s not “in the club’s interests or anyone working here’s interest to know the expiration dates on the contracts of our baseball [operations] employees,” and asked about his contract, Elias said “that wouldn’t be a question for me.” Orioles CEO and Chairman John Angelos never followed through on an offer to reporters last month to “show you everything you want to know, and I’ll put all your questions [to bed],” among which are the details of Elias and Hyde’s contracts with the club. Both are entering their fifth season with Baltimore.

“We’re very committed to this project with the Orioles,” said Elias, an Alexandria, Virginia, native. “I’ve said before, it’s kind of personal for me, growing up in the area, to see the health of this franchise persist and blossom in the future, and I’m really proud to be here and proud of the way that it’s going.”

Asked whether he would be back as Baltimore’s general manager next season, Elias said, “I certainly expect that to be the case,” acknowledging the uncertainty of working in baseball. He then noted the difficulties his regime has faced, inheriting a team coming off a 115-loss season in 2018 that had little focus on advanced analytics or presence in the international market.

“This has been a really hard job,” Elias said. “We inherited a lot of problems. We’ve been working through them. They’re very big, global problems, but also, big issues with the baseball operation when we came in. And nothing’s gone perfectly; it never does, but this has really gone about as well as I could have hoped since starting, especially with a pandemic layered in there and a labor stoppage. And I think this group is really equipped to be the ones to lead us to the playoffs and beyond.”

Under Elias and Hyde, the Orioles have largely enjoyed consistency in leadership, especially coming off last year’s success. Many of the top-ranking members of the Orioles’ baseball operations are entering at least their fourth season with the organization. The entirety of Hyde’s 2022 coaching staff is back. All eight of last season’s minor league managers are still in the organization, with many assistant coaches returning, as well.

“It’s not something that we’re proud of for its own sake,” Elias said. “We’re constantly trying to keep the organization competitive and structured properly, and that involves changes year to year in sports, for better or worse, but I think the fact that that group is, by and large, returning almost 100% speaks to what we see as having the right people in the right place at this point in time across these couple of seasons.

“Hopefully, we’ll all continue to earn that stability going forward.”