Ben Cherington “withdrew” himself from consideration for the Mets’ and Giants’ front office openings and so now I can breathe a sigh of relief for having written about his prime candidacy. When it comes to these front office executive searches, not even “people who played the game” have a good grasp of the basics.
None of us really know what the organizations tend to look for or what the secret handshake is to get a GM job — the front office is one of the least observable parts of a major league operation (the owners colluding being the #1 least observable facets of the game) — and so our speculation in this case is even less considered or based on factual information than ever before.