Matt Klentak graduated from Dartmouth College in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became the Phillies' general manager in October 2015, when he was 35 years old. He looks as if a morning shave requires him to do nothing more than pick up a pair of tweezers and pluck three or four shafts of hair from his chin.
If there is a stereotype of the modern major-league executive as a data-loving, Ivy League-educated egghead, Klentak would appear at first to be its quintessence. He's the personification of the break that the Phillies have made with a longstanding tradition - their adherence to old-school baseball philosophy, the age in their history that ended (symbolically anyway) when Dallas Green died last week.