While the Giants don’t feel the need to adhere to a certain timeline in naming their next manager, the start of the GM Meetings, which will run from Monday to Thursday at the Omni Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz., likely helped expedite Harris’ hire.I don't really know any more about Harris than what's mentioned on MLBTR:
A bay area native, Harris graduated from UCLA and earned his MBA from Northwestern, breaking into the baseball industry as an intern with the Nationals and Reds, positions that he turned into a full-time gig in the MLB commissioner’s office. In his time with the Cubs, he had a hand in the club’s ascension to World Series champions in 2015, emerging as the right-hand man for top baseball ops officers Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer.According to a story on The Athletic, Harris, who is from Redwood City, got help from none other than former Giants GM Al Rosen to get the internship with the Nats. But get this--he's only 32. That's right, he's younger than Johnny Cueto, Jeff Samardzija, Evan Longoria, Buster Posey, and Brandon Crawford. Bobby Evans was 46 when he got the nod, and Brian Sabean was 41. Sabes had the job for 18 years.
Welcome aboard, Scott!
--M.C.
p.s. Monday update--I found this picture of Harris:
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Looks like Bam-Bam Muelens is leaving for a coaching job with the Marlins.
I'm amused by the descriptor I've read in a couple of articles of his background with the "perennially contending Cubs". I guess that might be true for someone born in, say, 2010, but for anyone else, it's more like "perennially non-contending Cubs". That's not a knock on him, in 2010 he was only 23. I hope they go with a new (non-retread) manager and expect all the coaches to be replaced.
Five straight winning seasons, 2015-2019. It hardly qualifies as "perennial" but it is something. But I don't think W-L on the resume is important. Teams are just that--teams. It takes a village. One guy doesn't get the credit. You need smart, creative, resilient people who are self-critical, open to change, and good communicators. If Harris is that guy then I'm happy.
I think they will go with a rookie manager and I do expect most of the coaches to be gone. Muelens has already left.
I found that picture of Matt Cain and had to use it!
Mike Gerber was outrighted to AAA but instead chose free agency.
Ricardo Pinto was released and is going to Korea. I expect lots of FAs to look for work in Korea. I hope we get to see more Korean ballplayers come to the US.
I wish they had gone with a rookie manager, not Kapler. But the revelation that the Astros had been illicitly stealing signs meant that Joe Espada, whom I was rooting for, had almost surely known about crooked behavior and tolerated it, if not encouraged it. He became a more dubious candidate than Kapler.
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