The Cleveland Indians are losing long-time front office man and current team president Mark Shapiro following this season will head to Toronto to take on a similar role there. Ever since this was announced, rumors have been circulating about who would replace him, but the Indians quickly came out and said that there’d be no front office shakeup and current General Manager Chris Antonetti would report to owner Paul Dolan directly, as opposed to going to Mark Shapiro. However, despite the Indians saying this rumors are still flying about a possible front office shake up, with the latest coming from Ken Rosenthal:
Chernoff, however, is staying with #Indians – perhaps to move up to GM, with Chris Antonetti becoming prez of baseball ops, sources say.