In their quest to finally manage to build a winning team around the best player of his generation, the Angels appear to have become enamored by the Cubs’ way of doing things. They fell all over themselves to hire Joe Maddon once his contract expired last season — which eventually led to me getting a tattoo, sort of — and now they are targeting members of the Cubs’ front office to fill the GM position after firing Billy Eppler.
We could even take things a step further and say that Anaheim may be looking to further imitate the Cubs by restructuring their own front office to include both a GM and a president of baseball operations.