With the general managers’ meetings having wrapped up Thursday, and with the vast majority of the Hot Stove season still ahead of us, let’s do our annual rankings of the top 10 GMs.
Well, almost annual. From the 2013 list, two have since lost their jobs – the Tigers dismissed Dave Dombrowski this past August, and the Braves did the same to Frank Wren following the 2014 season. Now Wren works for Dombrowski in Boston. A third, Andrew Friedman, switched employers from the Rays to the Dodgers in the fall of 2014.
Last year, I didn’t do the list because the GM meetings were held in Phoenix, and I spent a good amount of time profiling local Arizona Fall League players — one of whom, Greg Bird, proceeded to make a significant impact in the major leagues and the other three (Aaron Judge, L.