General Manager Search Thread: Who will be the 17th general manager?

[metirish]

I guess it's better than the time we had several GMs

[MFS62]

SNY announcing that Carlos Beltran will stay with the organization and be the the Special Assistant under Stearns.

I'm hoping that will be an audition for the full GM role once Stearns sees how well they can work together.

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[The Hot Corner]

I have always liked Beltran. I hated that he was involved in the sign stealing scandal in Houston. I am glad he has a role with the Mets, but I'm not sure what qualifications or experience he has that would make him a good GM. I think he is a better fit as a hitting instructor. I guess we will see how things unfold in the future.

[roger_that]

Aren't they just dicking around with job titles at this point? We could discuss the hierarchy of who's responsible for making certain decisions, who's above whom on the hiring/firing ladder, etc.



Coaches are subordinate to manager, manager is subordinate to someone who was formerly known as a GM, that person is subordinate to chief of baseball operations , the CBO is subordinate to the President of the franchise, who is subordinate to the team's owner, with various "assistants" and "associates" interspersed between various levels, with the responsibility for certain areas of decision to be determined. All this "titles" stuff is just to make unclear who's responsible for what. The old manager-GM-owner hierarchy was clear enough, and it was clear enough when someone was overstepping his job description. Now it's not.

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I read something recently that the distinction between POBO and GM is just a result of "position inflation". The POBO does what a GM used to do, and a GM does what an Assistant GM used to do.

In the spirit of position inflation, strange things have been afoot on the training staff. I just realized that some time when we weren't looking, Brian Chicklo, who had carried the title of "head trainer," became the "director of player health. This allowed Joseph Golia, the erstwhile "assistant trainer" to pull a Mary Richards and become "head trainer."



Dustin "The Wind" Clarke, who you may remember from such films as Strength and Conditioning Coach, is now starring in Performance Coach. And Sean Bardanett is not longer to be referred to as "physical therapist," thank you very much, but as "reconditioning coordinator." You can take that PT bullshit and get out of here.



This all may have happened yesterday or a year ago. The Mets Roster Central staff is tasked with trying to figure it all out, but half of them are instead clamoring for inflated position titles of their own.