• A’s Considering Hiring GM Under Taylor Smith

    A’s Considering Hiring GM Under Taylor Smith
    The Athletics finalized the hiring of their new president of baseball operations, Taylor Smith, on Monday. At Smith’s introductory press conference, owner John Fisher suggested they could also hire a general manager to work as the #2 front office executive (link via Martín Gallegos of MLB.com).
    That’s an increasingly common front office structure around MLB. The A’s had gone that route when Billy Beane and David Forst were the top two in the hierarchy. That changed at the end of the 2022

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