In today’s column, Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe looks at the recent phenomenon of teams installing various layers of upper management. Lately, teams have taken to employing a president of baseball operations, a GM, and then one or two assistant GMs underneath that person. In baseball circles, this has become known as “title inflation,” Cafardo writes. One source says that small market teams don’t like this trend, presumably because the larger market teams are able to pluck execs away with fancier titles that really amount to a lateral move.
Here’s more from today’s column..
- One AL exec told Cafardo that he stayed away from Johnny Cueto at the trade deadline because of a possible elbow issue.