The Orioles hired Trembley as the club?s interim manager on June 18, when the team fired Sam Perlozzo. MacPhail was officially introduced a day later.

MacPhail, 54, lived in the Baltimore area for about eight years, while his father, Lee, served as O?s general manager from 1958-1965. At the time, the MacPhail family lived in Guilford.

While he gets used to his new office and hunts for a new home in the area, MacPhail will take his time in determining who will manage the club beyond 2007.

“I?ll do my due diligence, but I won?t be doing any interviews until, I imagine, at least the trading deadline [on July 31.] There is no search that?s going to take place for a while,” MacPhail said. “We?re going to let Dave manage, and we?re going to see how things go. There?s no race here. It?s getting the right guy, that?s what the object is.”

The right guy, at least in MacPhail?s mind, seemed to be Girardi from the get-go. But now, he?s confident in Trembley as a capable leader ? much like he became with his one-time-interim manager in Minnesota, Tom Kelly.

“It was so clear that the energy and enthusiasm level had picked up,” MacPhail said of Kelly, who became the Twins full-time manager, leading them to World Series titles in 1987 and ?91. “He wasn?t a guy that was in the top two at the time, but a lot of these decisions become self-evident over time.”

MacPhail admitted that he?d like to have a full-time manager in place by the end of this season. He said he would relyupon that manager in making player personnel decisions in the off-season.