By now, you’ve heard the news that the Giants interviewed Jason McLeod, the Cubs’ Senior Vice President of Player Development and Amateur Scouting, for their open Chief Baseball Operations/Baseball Operations position.
There has been a lot of industry hype surrounding McLeod for the past several years, to the point that Theo Epstein and the Cubs signed him to a 5-year contract after the 2016 World Series. McLeod followed Epstein to Chicago from Boston, and it’s here that he really started making a name for himself. As this article from 2015 notes:
McLeod helped shape Boston’s 2007 World Series winner, restocking the farm system and drafting difference-makers like Dustin Pedroia, Jacoby Ellsbury and Clay Buchholz.