Blue Jays front office rankings
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Blue Jays fans love to hate on the front office team of Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro. According to a new piece in The Athletic, they may be onto something.
A recent article by Tyler Kepner of The Athletic polled 40 anonymous executive to find the Top 10 front offices in baseball.
As one executive put it...
In some ways it's hard to pick anyone but the Dodgers, right?» They are operating as well and as consistently across all areas of acquisition and development and performance as any team, I think, in modern history.
To nobody's surprise, the Dodgers are number one on the list. What they are doing is unprecedented. Although they blew away the field with 300 total points, a few execs left them off their ballots entirely.
I respect the hell out of Andrew Friedman and Brian Cashman. Andrew's a Hall of Famer and I think Cash is, too. But in the end, they have advantages a lot of teams don't. The teams I most admire are the ones like Tampa Bay, Cleveland and Milwaukee.»
The Tampa Bay Rays finished in second with 237, while the Brewers sat in a distant third place with 118 points. But what about the Blue Jays?
Turns out, fans aren't the only ones who think highly of Shapiro and Atkins. Toronto was one of ten teams not to receive a single vote. To make matters worse, they also didn't receive a single vote in 2024 either.
While it's likely that this poll conducted prior to the Vladimir Guerrero Jr. extension being announced, the Blue Jays' last two off-seasons - where they were seemingly in on everybody and signed nobody - as well as their sub-par 2024, no doubt were factors in their less-than-stellar ranking.
A good season will turn that around.
Source - The Athletic
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AVRIL 17 | 80 ANSWERS Blue Jays front office rankings Do you agree with the Athletic's rankings regarding Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro? | ||
| Yes | 63 | 78.8 % |
| No | 17 | 21.3 % |
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