[Baltimore Sun] John Angelos no longer works for Orioles as senior adviser
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Former Orioles Chairman and CEO John Angelos departed the organization late this summer following David Rubenstein’s completed purchase of the team. Angelos originally agreed to remain in the Orioles’ front office as a senior adviser but no longer holds the position after Rubenstein bought his remaining shares of the team in August.
“My understanding is that at this point it has transitioned fully over to the new ownership group,” Orioles president of business operations Catie Griggs told The Baltimore Sun in a phone interview.
Angelos did not respond to a request for comment.
Rubenstein, 75, reached an agreement to buy a majority stake in the Orioles on Jan. 30 from Angelos, 57, who took over for his father, Peter Angelos, as the club’s control person in 2020 with Peter Angelos’ health declining. The sale, which valued the team at $1.725 billion, gave Rubenstein a 40% stake in the Orioles with an agreement to buy the family’s remaining equity upon Peter’s death.
Peter Angelos, a nationally renowned class-action attorney who purchased the Orioles for $173 million in 1993, died at 94 years old on March 23, four days before MLB’s owners voted to approve Rubenstein as owner. Four months later, Rubenstein completed the sale to increase his stake to 97%.
The completion of the sale led to an official end to the Angelos family’s association with the Orioles, a tenure that began with Peter Angelos spending aggressively to bolster the roster and ended with John Angelos, his eldest son, scaling back payroll amid a lengthy rebuild. A 2022 lawsuit filed by Peter Angelos’ youngest son, Louis Angelos, who accused John Angelos of manipulating his mother Georgia Angelos to seize control of the team, loomed over the franchise for eight months before it was abruptly dropped.
Legal documents made public by the lawsuit revealed that Peter Angelos, whose health began to deteriorate in 2018, wished for his family to sell the Orioles after his death so that Georgia Angelos “could enjoy the great wealth they had amassed together.”
One of John Angelos’ final acts as owner was putting an end to a lengthy lease saga by reaching an agreement with the Maryland Stadium Authority in December to keep the club at Camden Yards for at least 15 years, with the option to extend it to 30 years pending a deal for development rights to some of the land adjacent to the ballpark. Rubenstein has expressed his desire to complete the negotiations and ensure the Orioles remain in Baltimore long term.
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As Chairman and CEO, Angelos oversaw the business side of the organization. It’s a job Rubenstein didn’t wish to handle himself, instead hiring Griggs in July after she spent three years in the same role with the Seattle Mariners.
Griggs has since reshuffled the Orioles’ business leadership team, announcing a series of changes Thursday that included executive vice president and COO Greg Bader, who has worked for the Orioles in various capacities since 1994, leaving his position with the club and taking over as executive vice president and general manager of the team-owned Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN).
The Orioles made six playoff appearances under the Angelos’ stewardship, never reaching the World Series and enduring a streak of 14 consecutive losing seasons from 1998 to 2011. Under Rubenstein, they went 91-71 in 2024 and secured a wild-card berth to follow up their American League East-winning season of 2023. Playoff success has still eluded the young Baltimore core, however, as both seasons have ended with postseason sweeps.
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