The Brewers will reportedly hire Astros assistant GM David Stearns to take over for Doug Melvin as their next general manager. The 30-year-old will become baseball's youngest GM.
It's hard to tell what kind of GM someone's going to be if he or she hasn't been one before. For example, the Jays hired former GM J.P. Ricciardi out of the Athletics front office, and it looked like he would be a Billy Beane discipline; that didn't really turn out to be the case. And then there's A.J. Preller, who came from a scouting background with the Rangers but promptly traded most of the Padres' young talent soon after taking his first GM job.