Mark Brown/Getty ImagesThe San Francisco Giants have reportedly contacted the New York Yankees about a trade for outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury Adam Jones Jersey , according to Buster Olney of ESPN.The 35-year-old missed all of 2018 and is owed about $48 million in his monster contract, so the Yankees would love to get rid of him if possible. However, Olney reported the most likely situation would be a swap of bad contracts.Veteran pitcher Johnny Cueto was listed as a possibility in a trade.The 32-year-old is coming off Tommy John surgery and is set to make more than $21 million in each of the next three seasons with a $22 million option for 2022. However, his team will recuperate some of that money from insurance for as long as he is out.Cueto has also shown more recently he can be an impact player, posting a 3.23 ERA in nine starts before his season-ending surgery in 2018. He also finishedsixth in Cy Young voting in 2016 after earning an All-Star selection.Ellsbury hasn't been an All-Star since 2011 and has been mostly a disappointment since signing a seven-year, $153 million deal with the Yankees before the 2014 season. He hit .264 with seven home runs and 22 stolen bases in 112 games in 2017 before a hip injury cost him all of last season.General manager Brian Cashman said in October that Ellsbury"is supposed to be fully recovered" by Opening Day, via Brian Hoch of the team'sofficial site.The Giants鈥攚ho are in need of outfield depth鈥攃ould take a chance that the 35-year-old is back to full strength and can make a positive impact at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths.Ellsbury is set to make about $21.1 million in each of the next two years with a $5 million buyout in 2021 if his option is not picked up. BALTIMORE (AP) — Sitting side by side in the auxiliary clubhouse at Camden Yards, Orioles general manager Mike Elias and new manager Brandon Hyde spoke excitedly Monday about working together to mold the struggling franchise into a winner again.Hired last month to oversee a massive rebuilding project, Elias immediately set out to find a manager that could develop young, inexperienced players into solid major leaguers.He settled on Hyde, the 45-year-old bench coach of the Chicago Cubs, who was named the 20th manager in Orioles history on Friday.“He’s somebody that is viewed as an up and coming star in our business http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-manny-machado-jersey ,” Elias said. “So I’m very happy that we landed him here.”Elias came to Baltimore from Houston, where he helped turn the Astros from a perennial loser into a World Series champion. Hyde, similarly, was an integral part of the process that bolstered the Cubs from a rebuilding club into a world champion. This will be his first job as major league manager.“We’ve come from two organizations that had some down years but all of a sudden got good real quick,” Hyde noted. “That’s going to be the process here, and we’re looking forward to getting that going.”Elias said: “What stood out throughout the entire process for me, for us, were Brandon’s unique qualifications and experiences for this job. Being such a huge part of building the Cubs organization into a world champion and a playoff-caliber team was very attractive to me throughout this entire process.”During a nine-year run with the Miami Marlins, Hyde served as a bench coach from June 2010 through the end of the 2011 season. In Chicago, he was bench coach in 2014, first base coach from 2015-17 and bench coach this year under the skilled and respected Joe Maddon.“I’m a big Joe Maddon fan. I love Joe Maddon,” Hyde said. “What I’ve learned the most from him is consistency, how he is on a daily basis. He’s so positive. Always upbeat.”Patience is going to be the key in Baltimore Chris Davis Jersey , where Elias and Hyde will be toiling in unison to turn around a team that finished 47-115 in 2018 — the most losses in franchise history.“I think the approach and the personal characteristics that he’s going to bring to this job are ideal,” Elias said. “He is someone with a reputation and experience for connecting with players, communicating with players, empathizing with players, which is very important in today’s game. But he also has the same view that I have — that this is a partnership between the front office and the coaching staff. We are going to be working toward the same goals.”Although he’s been entrenched in the National League for the past decade, Hyde knows all about the Orioles’ rich history. From the late 1960s through the team’s last World Series title in 1983, Baltimore was recognized as one of the best teams in the majors.One of the standouts of that era, Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson, sat in the front row during the news conference.Asked what made Baltimore attractive to him, Hyde replied, “The rich tradition here. Brooks Robinson is sitting here. I’m in my new office, and there’s pictures of Earl Weaver and Cal Ripken Sr. I grew up a baseball rat. To be around history and be involved in a city like Baltimore, it’s a dream come true http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-brooks-robinson-jersey , to be in the American League East and going out and competing every night.”Before he can assess the talent in the organization, Hyde must first assemble his coaching staff.Then, it will be time to get down to business with Elias and former Astros analytics chief Sig Mejdal to rebuild the Orioles.“That’s what attracted me here,” Hyde said. “Knowing what they did in Houston, their ability to acquire talent, their ability to draft. Then, hearing what they wanted from a major league manager, I thought it was a really, really good fit.”