The Blue Jays have now lost two high-ranking members of their front office to the Pirates in the past couple weeks. Senior vice president of baseball operations Ben Cherington left to become Pittsburgh’s general manager Nov. 18, and now amateur scouting director Steve Sanders is on his way to the Steel City, Jeff Passan of ESPN tweets. He’ll become an assistant general manager with the Pirates, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
It’s unclear where Sanders will fall in the pecking order for the Bucs, who already have Kevan Graves as an assistant GM behind Cherington. Regardless, as the PPG notes, the Pirates just landed someone who’s considered “a rising star in the industry.” Just 31 years old, Sanders has ties to Cherington dating back to their time together in Boston. Sanders spent the previous three years in Toronto, where he helped stock up a farm system that Baseball America ranked 24th when he arrived but now rates as No. 6 in the game.
Pirates won the offseason
May not see it next year or the year after but Cherington was a major coup and their owner won’t meddle
Within 3 years they will have a top 3 farm
They already had one of those, they just so happened to give the fruits of it to the Rays for no reason at all.
Awesome
I’m just glad he was able to get his life together after getting expelled from West Beverly.
Beats working at the Peach Pit
Is he going to let Cherington drive his Corvette?
Cherington can trade assets for promising young near MLB ready prospects to compliment the core they have already hopefully he can then identify pieces to fill holes in the team to contend. Having Sanders on board only strengthens the chance of the window staying open longer. Sanders rebuilt the Jays farm in 3 years, so when the Pirates reach their next window with the current core our next group of prospects will be developing to fill holes as needed..
Steve Sanders rocks!
The Peach Pit will never be the same without you Steve
Ian Zering? Really
Please announce Brandon Walsh as Assistant to the Assistant GM.
Welcome to Pot Hole City, Stevie!
Ian Ziering from 90210?
Pirates are putting all of the right peiple in place to succeed. Now.
Succeed.