In a series of moves roughly three months in the making, the Cubs have announced a shuffling of their baseball ops positions. The changes were necessitated by the departure of director of pro scouting Jared Porter, who left to become senior vice president and assistant general manager with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The full list of promotions and hirings is below, but I wanted to highlight a couple of the moves in particular.
Jason Parks, a Baseball Prospectus alum and beloved Twitter follow whose hiring by the Cubs caused quite a stir and spurred one of our most popular posts ever, is now Special Assistant to the President and General Manager.