The Cubs’ reshaping of the front office continued Monday, as they announced the hiring of Ehsan Bokhari as an assistant general manager. Bokhari, 38, has spent the past four seasons in the Astros’ front office — first as their director of R&D in 2018 and, more recently, as their senior director of player evaluation from 2019-21.
With the Astros, Bokhari contributed to player evaluation at the amateur, professional and international levels in addition to overseeing the entirety of the team’s research and development projects. He was one of the original members of the Dodgers’ research and development staff, serving as a senior analyst with Los Angeles from 2015-18. Bokhari holds a PhD in quantitative psychology and an MS in Statistics from the University of Illinois, in addition to undergraduate degrees in psychology and mathematics from the University of Arizona.
Bokhari will replace longtime Cubs executive Randy Bush as assistant general manager, as the 63-year-old Bush transitions into a consultant/advisory role with the Cubs, per Gordon Wittenmyer of NBC Sports Chicago (Twitter link). The Cubs’ front office has seen a good bit of turnover throughout the past calendar year, beginning with Theo Epstein’s decision to step down as president of baseball operations. Longtime GM Jed Hoyer was elevated to that vacant title, and earlier this month Hoyer announced the hiring of Cleveland assistant GM Carter Hawkins as the team’s new general manager.
Good hire right there
I’m not sure if you’re serious or not. I hope you’re not. I guess it doesn’t matter. Cubs won’t do much this winter.
I laugh when someone comments that some inner working FO person is a good hire. Especially when we have probably never heard of the person or exactly what they do, until a team hires a new FO person.
Thanks, Professor Nobody!
If you can’t beat them he’ll at least know how to cheat!
Yeah honestly, how quickly they all forget or don’t care. Goes with society now I guess.
Forget what? This guy wasn’t on the Astros team that was caught cheating.
I like it. Say what you will about the Astros but that front office has made many great moves
Lol
Resentment lol
Quantitative psychology sounds like something that would make my head hurt a lot if someone tried to explain to me what it is.
Lol. When I read the article, I said to myself, what the eff is quantitative psychology, and how does one who holds a degree in that, become a baseball front office guy?
From Google “Quantitative psychology is a field of scientific study that focuses on the mathematical modeling, research design and methodology, and statistical analysis of human or animal psychological processes. It includes tests and other devices for measuring human abilities.”
This seems like a good PD type major to analyze the more mental aspect of performance
The Cubs and Hoyer showing action, doing a fast rebuild of the front office, landing top talent. The Mets meanwhile…
Quantitative Psychology deals with statistical data. I suppose another tool to add to Sabremetrics. Me, I’m too old. I don’t know Sabremetrics from a
Sabre Tooth Tiger. I subscribe to the thought of see the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball. Simplify life is the name of the game for this old timer. Heck I used a slide rule while getting an engineering degree. You young whippersnappers have a much better handle on all the new data analysis tools.
Quant Psych is the next generation of metrics, an attempt to understand certain personality characteristics, and the factors (physical, environmental) that lead to that process. Again, it’s not the raw data that’s important; it’s understanding how the data came to be. It helps in understanding the (poorly) called “soft metrics”.
It’s really just beginning, and all kinds of questions have to be asked about the model building, etc. But it looks like an exciting field of inquiry. And VEERY useful in player evaluation. We know some draft picks, e.g., consider a high bonus to be a challenge to live up to, while others figure they’ve “arrived:, and stop working toward any other goal.
Lot of good this guy did for the Dodgers.
The Braves consult with Bobby Cox.
They got rid of good baseball guys to be replaced by NERDS,He worked for the Dodgers but it was not him alone making the moves.He is another “smart guy” who thinks he knows baseball.Good luck same results if not worse.
Anybody > you.
And I know, I know.
“Get off your lawn!”
A new GM, Assistant GM, a new hitting coach on the way and likely more front office and on field coaching changes on the way. Now start putting together a winning team. Unfortunately this won’t happen quickly. Start developing players from within. Right now it’s a start in the right direction as far as the minors. Some young players there but young in the 18-20 year old age group. Again, it’s a start. I just don’t see the the Cubs spending big this off season. Hopefully they spend money wisely buts that’s always easier said than done. Signing expensive free agents to long term deals can be a organizational disaster. Let’s see what continues to happen during the off season. Just saying that the Cubs have a long way to go with so many areas of need to put a winning team on the field this upcoming 2022 season.
You figured this out all by yourself?
Only because you couldn’t as you have the IQ of a banana.
Stalker creep. Get a life.
So you say “WrigleyFieldTurd” and I’m the clown? Either look in the mirror and change or hire a cleverer writer.
And you’re obviously too young drunk….or matter. Get off mom’s phone.
They should of hired Bozo or Cookie for that clown show over there
The White Sox hired Tony LaRussa
Hahahah
Awe sox2112, do I sense a bit of frustration and jealousy here, lol. It’s a real shame what happened to your boys when they face a decent team.
@Dogbone, you’re 100% right. Lots of teams in NL which didn’t make the post season would had won that AL Central Division with all those mediocre teams actually there. They would had choked in post season as the Sox did, but I don’t understand all the fanfare from White Sucks fans. They won it because their team was a liitle better than the rest of all those terrible teams. Any first grader can understand that.
Means he is well versed in Statistics and analytics with all those degrees and strong interpersonal Skills. Would be interested aS to what his salary is.
It’s amazing how trolls can come on here and make comments about this guy being a bad hire or pointing out his ethnicity. I am very excited about this hire. Ehsan is a great baseball mind and an even better human being.
I echo your excitement and agree. Great mind, colleague and person. Congrats Ehsan!
The last two organizations he has worked for have recently been a constant in the league championship series. Both also have recent World Series wins. Good enough for me. Give him a shot.
Cubs looking at the Dodgers way as a way to building a team from its core. Dodgers always rely on their Minor Leagues as they are always developing young good pitchers and position players. They always have a good youngster, almost on a yearly basis, since decades back. A shame they can’t develop good managers since Lasorda. Only one WS ring with an asterisk, because they have let a manager learn through bad decisions year after year. With those teams they had put all seasons, back from 2014, they should had won at least three WS but didn’t mostly because their front office had been stuborn keeping Roberts as their manager, and now their window is closing.
This is sad for me to say because I’m a lifelong Cubs fan. The Ricketts family will not allow the needed spending and focus of resources in order for the Cubs to be a World Series contender again! After the 2016 World Series, Tom Ricketts became greedy and then realized that the old Cubs has The Lovable Losers made tons and tons of money for the Tribune Company and the Wrigley Company before that! All this in my opinion drove Theo Epstein away from the Cubs organization when his contract was up. This is very sad! I don’t take Hoyer or any of his management team seriously.
This is sad for me to say because I’m a lifelong Cubs fan. The Ricketts family will not allow the needed spending and focus of resources in order for the Cubs to be a World Series contender again! After the 2016 World Series, Tom Ricketts became greedy and then realized that the old Cubs as The Lovable Losers made tons and tons of money for the Tribune Company and the Wrigley Company before that! All this in my opinion drove Theo Epstein away from the Cubs organization when his contract was up. This is very sad! I don’t take Hoyer or any of his management team seriously.
@Dogbone, you’re 100% right. Lots of teams in NL which didn’t make the post season would had won that AL Central Division with all those mediocre teams actually there. They would had choked in post season as the Sox did, but I don’t understand all the fanfare from White Sucks fans. They won it because their team was a liitle better than the rest of all those terrible teams. Any first grader can understand that.