Whomever Mike Elias decided to hire as skipper of the Orioles was probably going to be overwhelmed, as obeisance and inexperience were primary job requirements. And it’s worth noting that as miscast as 2025 interim skipper Tony Mansolino was for the job, he made a point of letting people know that if he got the full-time gig for 2026 he was going to run an “old-fashioned” spring training and drill the Orioles long and hard to try to snap their cycle of horrible defensive baseball and low-IQ in-game decision-making and unsound situational hitting philosophies that marred their play since around May of 2024. We’ll never know what that would have looked like – and no one is pining for a bench coach thrust into a job he was ill-prepared for.…