Tommy Jumps

[Edgy MD]

Tommy Tanous, scouting executive who has been with the team since the 2010-2011 offseason, has joined the Colorado Rockies. Tommy's most recent title — "Vice President & Special Advisor to the President of Baseball Operations, Player Evaluation" — was long enough to take up two calling cards. He was scouting director from 2011 to 2016, and I think had oversight over his two successors in that role — Marc Traumauta (2017–2022) and Drew Toussaint (2023–current). His fingerprints are all over this team.

He wasn't necessarily David Stearns' number two, but he was certainly at the round table of four or so guys in the primary braintrust, and certainly had more institutional equity than any of those others.

With the Roxx, he will have the similar title of assistant general manager of scouting and player development.

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Guys move on, of course, but the timing is less than ideal.

[Edgy MD]

And I wasn't able to fix the oven door today.

I think I'm going to start a GoFundMe campaign to get a Whirlpool repairman in here.

[smg58]

He evidently likes a challenge. I'm afraid to speculate on what's going on internally. But I don't get the sense that Stearns is impressed if you've been here a while.