When last the Orioles sent proven baseball failure Mike Elias and “GM” Jared Banner to speak to the media, the conversation steered decidedly away from any concrete baseball news. Rookie “GM” Jared Banner was too busy falling all over himself praising Elias and business-side czar Catie Griggs to do much else, and Elias likes to pretend he plays his cards close to the vest … and then obvious leaks through the media in quasi-reports make him so transparent it’s almost painful.

But based on the breathless reporting in The Baltimore Banner about everybody being on the table via trade, allegedly, besides Pete Alonso and Gunnar Henderson, combined with a few kernels of wisdom we got from Assistant GM No. 4 at his big press conference with Elias, we believe the Orioles are sending real signals about some of the offseason ambitions, or lack thereof.

Call us cynics, we’ve been called far worse, but on the heels of Griggs firing Mr.…