faba Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 oyer, Cherington will be co-GMs; no Epstein updateESPN.com news services The Boston Red Sox, who have been without a general manager since Theo Epstein walked away on Halloween, will announce Jed Hoyer and Ben Cherington as co-GMs, ESPN's Peter Gammons reported. The announcement will be made at a 3:30 p.m. ET news conference. There will be no announcement concerning Epstein's possible return as a consultant. That will be worked out in time, Gammons reports. Red Sox president Larry Lucchino declined to comment last week but said that a restructuring "will be one result, to be sure." "After interviewing external candidates, we have been examining internal possibilities and restructuring," he said in an e-mail to The Associated Press on Saturday. "We are not commenting on specific individuals, however, and are not prepared to make any announcements." Once the youngest GM in baseball history and still the only one to build a World Series champion in Boston, Epstein decided not to renew his contract after three years and a franchise-record three consecutive playoff appearances. Although he did not state his reason, reports focused on a falling out with Lucchino, his longtime mentor. Among those who interviewed to replace Epstein were Jim Beattie, former Orioles executive vice president; Washington Nationals' general manager Jim Bowden; David Wilder, the White Sox director of player development and former Dodgers GM Dan Evans. Jeremy Kapstein, a Lucchino confident, and Bill Lajoie, the former Tigers GM who has been a special adviser to Epstein, were also floated for the position. Lajoie, 71, said at the recent winter meetings that he was not interested in the job, and special assistant to the GM Craig Shipley has reportedly also said he doesn't want the promotion. The Red Sox sent a four-person crew to the general managers' meetings in November, and had a similar four-man group at the winter meetings this month in Dallas. Lajoie worked as the point man for the group, and various deals were assigned to individual members of the "Four Horsemen" to pursue. The four -- Lajoie, Shipley, the 32-year-old Hoyer and the 31-year-old Cherington -- said the arrangement worked well. After trading shortstop Edgar Renteria to Atlanta, Lajoie said he made sure to get some of the youngsters into the room with John Schuerholz so they would get the experience of dealing with the longtime Braves GM. "That was the point of it," Lajoie said. "Let's learn how to make a trade here." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormshadow19 Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 So... Theo to the Tigers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxman Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Co-GMs. That is just great. Should be real easy to pull the trigger on a moments notice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbn007 Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Co-GMs. That is just great. Should be real easy to pull the trigger on a moments notice. How'd that work for the Birds the past couple of seasons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet/BosoxFan Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 How'd that work for the Birds the past couple of seasons? I think Tampa Bay has 2 GMs as well. T-Bay and the O's...not exactly 2 models of success that I am wild about emulating! Though, if we ALWAYS operated with 2 GMs since from the very beginning...maybe Pudge Fish woulda been offered a contract on time! Doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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