Brandon Hyde was not out of the baseball world for long.

The Tampa Bay Rays announced they hired the former Orioles manager as a senior adviser in the baseball operations department.

Hyde, 52, whose tenure with the Orioles ended in May amid a disastrous start to the 2025 season, will now help Baltimore’s American League East rival.

Hyde went 421-492 as the Orioles’ manager. He oversaw the beginning and end of the rebuild in Baltimore, but the 101-win 2023 campaign and the 91-win 2024 season finished without a postseason victory. Then in 2025, a poor start to the year dug too large a hole. The Orioles dismissed Hyde after a 15-28 start and elevated third base coach Tony Mansolino in an interim capacity.

Mansolino guided the team to a 60-59 record the rest of the way.

Now, the Orioles are moving forward with Craig Albernaz as manager. Bouncing back from a last-place finish in the AL East is the first priority, but finding postseason success is as imperative.

Hyde joined Baltimore ahead of the 2019 season, chosen by Mike Elias, now the president of baseball operations, to coach a young team through a rebuild.

Hyde saw losing seasons turn into a division title in 2023, for which he earned the American League Manager of the Year award.

When Hyde reflected on what transpired in Baltimore during an August interview on MLB Network, he attributed some of the shaky start to a plethora of injuries. He also noted the lineup and pitching staff didn’t perform at a high enough level.

“We had a tough time rotation-wise, and it kind of started with Grayson [Rodriguez] getting hurt in spring training,” Hyde said.

“That was somebody we were relying on to really take the next step. He’s got top-of-the-rotation stuff, and I thought he was going to take that next step this year. Unfortunately, he got hurt, so rotation-wise we had a tough time staying in the game the first 40-something games I was there. We had some underperformance on offense too, we had some injuries, but everybody has injuries, so that’s not an excuse. But we just didn’t play very good baseball the first month of the season.”

Rodriguez was traded to the Los Angeles Angels for outfielder Taylor Ward in November.

By joining the Rays, Hyde will work closer to his Florida home. He likely has a strong understanding of the organizational philosophies, considering Hyde’s close relationship with former Rays manager Joe Maddon, under whom he was bench coach with the Cubs.

There are similarities in the way the Rays and Orioles operate, too, as two smaller-market clubs in the juggernaut AL East. Tampa Bay relies on analytical thinking to assist with roster decisions and in-game strategy; under Elias, Baltimore uses a comparable approach.