After dropping Buck Showalter, the Orioles fire Dan Duquette as well.

It appears as if the Orioles organization is going to wipe the slate clean. Hours after it broke that the club was moving on from manager Buck Showalter, news trickled out Wednesday evening that executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette would not be retained, either.

The Duquette dismissal, confirmed by multiple sources to MLB.com, has not been confirmed by the club, which has released no official word on the status of either Showalter or Duquette.

I’m not surprised. The front office likely had more to do with this fall than the manager.