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It Cannot Be That Hard To Be a General Manager

Related Topics: Franchy Cordero, Jake Diekman

Listen, I’m not naive. I know that it’s probably pretty hard to be a GM/President of Baseball Operations/Chief Baseball Officer. Actually, before I get into this, let’s talk about those titles. Why do teams have both of those things now? What is even the difference? Why was Theo Epstein the Red Sox’ General Manager and then Dave Dombrowksi was their President of Baseball Operations but now Chaim Bloom is the Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer? They were/are all at the top of the chain of command! What is the difference?! And, even if a team has a Chief Baseball Officer or President of Baseball Operations, they still have a GM!