Email a copy of 'Athletics Promote Billy Beane, David Forst' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Athletics Promote Billy Beane, David Forst' to a friend
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bobbleheadguru
When they make movies about you, you should be promoted eventually.
juniorgriffey
Gotta wonder how the moves will differ now. I think Beane was the best general manager in the bigs. Let’s see how his successor handles the role. The movie probably should have made mention of having The Big Three though haha.
jd396
I’m starting to get a little confused about what a GM is and what a president of baseball operations is. Every team of course has a little different hierarchy, different levels of owner involvement, and what not, but obviously the trend these days is towards this, having that president of baseball operations with a GM under him. What’s the distinction supposed to be? It’s not like this hasn’t been Billy Beane’s operation for years.
start_wearing_purple
Don’t worry, everyone is confused.
jd396
I think the only big difference from team to team is how directly the chief roster builder answers to the owner.
Seems like soon we’ll end up with a draft for executives. Maybe an MLB Executives Association.
dodgerblue88
I always saw it as a way to keep and hoard executive talent.
President of baseball operations was a way to promote or steal attractive GMs. This then opened up the GM role for new candidates.
In my mind the President of Ops>GM model is no different than the GM>AGM model, it just gives everyone a better title and appeases their ego. The top young execs don’t want to stay as an AGM, and so this gives you a place to promote them to.
In other words, nothing’s changed but the title on their office door and the zeros on their paycheck.
edari
Beane is not 62 years old, he was born in the 62 making him 53 years old.
Steve Adams
Thanks. Got the birth year stuck in my head when I was double-checking his age, apparently. Appreciate the heads up. It’s been corrected.
Yamsi12
Interesting move but was Beane all that good as a GM anyways?
LordD99
Nothing has changed. Title inflation.
Yamsi12
Which means he will still flip players before they get too expensive for younger controlled players, just to flip them in a few years. I get the who sabermetric aka moneyball era he ushered in, but I’m about ready to call Beane and his version of it in Oakland a failure. Kudos for getting a good book and movie out of it though.