Jim Bowden has had two stints as a general manager. His first stint, with the Reds, ended because the teams he had built were really bad at baseball. His second stint, with the Nationals, ended because he was under an FBI investigation for skimming money that was supposed to be going to signing bonuses for young Latin American ballplayers.
In his post-GM career, he has a radio show and writes for The Athletic, and he sometimes steals scoops from fake Twitter accounts and then panics and deletes his Twitter account.
So anyway, just keep in mind that while Bowden’s job history makes him a “former GM” in every headline, it would still be wise to ingest a grain or two of salt along with any of his content you consume.