Organizational structure changes over time. Firms are forced to adapt their management styles or risk losing out to more efficient, dynamic competition. We’ve seen this in tech companies, where flatter hierarchies encourage more creativity and collectiveness among employees. We’ve also seen it in baseball, notably in the way front offices are organized.
The most obvious example of this is the evolution of the President of Baseball Operations office. In yesteryear, some teams didn’t even have such a position, and those that did usually acknowledged the role as supervisory, a liason between ownership and management, or dealing with the macro level issues of a baseball team, like the stadium the team plays in.