Theo Epstein was once the golden boy of the Boston Red Sox. The franchise made him the youngest general manager in MLB history when they promoted him to the role in 2002 and he quickly proved his brilliance as the architect of the World Series championship team that ended an 86-year title drought.
That boy has grown into a man. Epstein left the Red Sox in 2011 to accept the position of president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs. He built a team that vanquished another curse by winning a title in 2016, the franchise’s first in over a century.