Who are the best GMs/POBOs (pres of baseball ops)

[Docwaukee]

your thoughts?  

Friedman is tops likely.  

Cashman is up there.  

[Warfarin]

Friedman is clearly the best, IMO.  Beyond him, I would say that Beane is great, as is Anthropolous and Epstein.  Zaidi will likely show himself to be a top one very soon, too.

I'd say a top PBO/GM is one who can build a winning team and keep them winning for a long stretch of time - not just one who can win a title by going all in, then having their team not be very good for chunks of time.

[eligrba]

Obviously, the majority of AW posters who always seem to know the right moves to make............after the final results are recorded.

[Lou]

Perry Minasian.

[BTH]

I'd say that, right now, the best are probably Chris Antonetti/Mike Chernoff with Cleveland, Andrew Friedman with Los Angeles, Derek Falvey/Thad Levine with Minnesota, Billy Beane/David Forst with Oakland, Brian Cashman with New York, and Matthew Silverman/Erik Neander with Tampa Bay.

[tdawg87]

I want a pobo 

[Revad]

Sorry if this is annoying since I keep saying it ( I may be wrong) but Walker and Smiley, plus some bullepen help.  The rest needs to come from the farm.

[kevinb]

5 hours ago, Dochalo said:

your thoughts?  

Friedman is tops likely.  

Cashman is up there.  

Epstein

Beane. I don’t know what his title was or is but I always wanted him to see what he could with a team that wasn’t completely cheap. 

[failos]

Not the guy who spent hundreds of millions on Giancarlo Stanton.

[Docwaukee]

3 hours ago, Trendon said:

I'd say that, right now, the best are probably Chris Antonetti/Mike Chernoff with Cleveland, Andrew Friedman with Los Angeles, Derek Falvey/Thad Levine with Minnesota, Billy Beane/David Forst with Oakland, Brian Cashman with New York, and Matthew Silverman/Erik Neander with Tampa Bay.

that's a good list.  

I was glancing through the various teams.  

a bunch don't have both a GM and president of baseball ops.  

plus, how many of the top GM's who are now PBO's were actually GMs for other teams?  and how many PBO and GMs were actually pilfered away from other teams or luckily available like the Friedmans of the world.   

Most of the truly successful guys get promoted to GM from AGM.  You don't see hardly any GM or PBO's switching teams after they've had success with one  club.  

 

[Warfarin]

6 hours ago, Dochalo said:

that's a good list.  

I was glancing through the various teams.  

a bunch don't have both a GM and president of baseball ops.  

plus, how many of the top GM's who are now PBO's were actually GMs for other teams?  and how many PBO and GMs were actually pilfered away from other teams or luckily available like the Friedmans of the world.   

Most of the truly successful guys get promoted to GM from AGM.  You don't see hardly any GM or PBO's switching teams after they've had success with one  club.  

 

Yeah - typically, GMs were "promoted" to PBO on the same team, so they could be kept with their current team, and allowed to hire more staff.  

That said, there are examples of it happening.  Friedman was GM with the Rays when the Dodgers offered him the PBO role.  Zaidi was GM of the Dodgers (under Friedman) when the Giants offered him PBO.  So it does happen, to some degree.

[Taylor]

1-29. ???

30. Jerry Dipoto

[m0nkey]

Kim Ng

[Stradling]

7 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Kim Ng

Hired by the Marlins this morning. 

[failos]

32 minutes ago, m0nkey said:

Kim Ng