They are in the process of finalizing a deal with Blake Butera to manage the team.

He is 33 years old.

Danny, we are both decidedly older than both the new president of baseball operations.

35-year-old T-bone, Paul Tobone, who sat in that seat with us for an hour.

That's right.

And the 33-year-old skipper to be Blake Butera of the Washington Nationals.

He is going to be the youngest manager introduced when the Nats finalized their deal with him in the big leagues since 1972.

Pretty amazing.

You're going back over 50 years to find a manager hired this young. His experience

includes four years as a minor league skipper at the single A level, where in those four seasons,

he finished in first place four times, and was a two-time champion at his level. He then went to the player development side, all in the raise organization.

There are very few orgs.

When it comes to not spending money and winning baseball games,

there's nobody better than Tampa Bay.

You've dipped into that talent pool,

a guy that coached, that managed,

and he has run their player development staff

over the last couple of years.

So this is a developmental mind, an instructor, a teacher, and at just 33 years old, he will be young and have energy to match a very young clubhouse.

This is Balzy.

This is a big, big risk for a limb.

35-year-old GM to hire a 33-year-old manager that most people outside of the inner workings

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