Summary[]
Ben and Sam talk to former Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager Dan Evans about his history as a baseball renaissance man and his new roles with the Toronto Blue Jays and the Northern League.
Topics[]
- Interview with Dan Evans
- Dan's new job with the Toronto Blue Jays
- GM interviews
- Developing prospects vs. trading for win-now talente
- How has the GM's role changed?
- Dan's job as Northern League commissioner
- Independent league baseball
- How to get a job in baseball
Notes[]
- Dan thinks he'll be on the road 3 weeks a month.
- Dan is now commissioner of the Northern League, which had been on a 2.5 year hiatus.
- Ben offers to take a team in the Northern League and have the whole BP staff involved in running it.
- Sam, on running an independent league team: "I wonder how many people in this conversation are joking, because I know at least one of us is not”