CLEVELAND, Ohio - Chris Antonetti is Major League Baseball's top executive for 2016.
That will earn him personal congratulations from his peers when the winter meetings begin Sunday in National Harbor, Maryland.
Beyond that, it's business as usual: trying to improve the Indians on a limited budget, this time after coming within one win of the organization's first World Series title since 1948.
I joked that one thing Antonetti should do is not take any advice from cleveland.com baseball writer Paul Hoynes, who caused a stir by predicting a short postseason run for the Tribe after injuries to pitchers Carlos Carrasco and Danny Salazar.