Earlier this month I recommended Chris Marinak to be hired to run the Mets’ baseball operations department.
I believe MLB’s current executive VP of strategy, technology and innovation possesses a skill set for a unique job, someone who I think not only could handle the baseball, but deliver the kind of big-picture leadership and steeliness that would be needed for the job.
Part of what I was hoping to do also, though, was to exemplify that the Mets do not have to stay on a traditional avenue for this role. Marinak has never worked in a baseball organization’s front office.