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Inside The Wheelhouse: The dynamics between Major League GMs

Related Topics: Sabermetrics

Five episodes into The Wheelhouse, we finally had the chance to get to some emails from Mariners fans. Most interestingly—what are the dynamics between GMs? This is a group that competes not only for talent and the ensuing wins, but even jobs.

What’s that like when it comes to, say, proposing a trade?

Here’s Jerry’s response on that—well, after cracking a joke about hanging out in the corner with the Rays guys.

It is such a small game and, with 30 teams who each have something in the neighborhood of 400 employees, it’s a lot smaller than it sounds.