Okay, so when a team is struggling as bad as the Diamondbacks have been, seeing a manager get fired is fairly commonplace. But the leader of a young, forward-thinking front office? That's more unusual and controversial. Buster Olney tweets some little bits of information:
Baseball World Stunned By Arizona’s Dismissal Of Josh Byrnes
Byrnes will be unemployed for about...0.2 seconds. First, the Diamondbacks have him under contract for the next five years, and secondly, he is very, very, very highly...regarded -- and now some team can hire him as a consultant until he gets his next GM job, and it will be on the D-Backs' dime. Today...I posted a poll of 12 GMs, and of those, 2 said that of all the other GMs in the game, they would hire Josh as their GM.
From a rival high-ranking executive, about the D-Backs' changes: "That is a brutal decision. They just tore apart one of the best front offices in baseball."...Another GM on the D-Backs' change at GM: "Absolutely crazy."
Josh Byrnes didn’t do everything right, but he’s a terrific baseball mind, and one can openly question whether the Diamondbacks just responded to a bad start by making the organization worse.
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