So it’s not about Jays president Mark Shapiro building an Indians North empire, it’s familiarity. The point is that, since the baseball draft is accepted as a crapshoot, the most imprecise of sciences, then so should being a baseball GM. He was the GM when the Red Sox hired Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations last August. Instead, he went to the Dodgers, joining a front office already teeming with five former big-league GMs. After leaving the Red Sox, Cherington spent a year as guest lecturer in Columbia University’s sports management program.

Source: thestar September 15, 2016 23:03 UTC