Good morning and welcome to episode 391 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from baseball

perspective brought to you by the baseballreference.com play index. I'm Ben Lindbergh, joined as always by

Sam Miller. It's Friday, so we are taking a break from the team previews until next week and doing

our traditional email show and you all responded with excellent emails as usual. Where would you like to

begin? So Benjamin says, as someone who might charitable be described as a political operative,

I spent a lot of time thinking about the composition of committees and elected bodies and how that

composition affects decision-making. The discussion of the Rockies co-GM situation got me thinking

about how decision-making could be done differently in front offices, so I thought I'd propose a

couple scenarios. I was wondering how decision-making in the following scenarios would be similar or

different to today's model and whether decisions would ultimately be better or worse. Scenario is

decisions are made by a group of seven co-GMs hired by the team to make decisions. It is

assumed the skill level of each co-GM individually, roughly mirrors the distribution of talent in

front offices generally. So essentially, instead of having a GM who makes decisions, you would have a

body of GMs who would vote like a congress of GMs. And all votes would be weighted equally.

I'm assuming decisions to trade sign etc are made like they are in a parliamentary setting,

they need to be proposed by a member of the body and voted on. So what do you think? Would you

rather have seven GMs who are sort of, I don't well, I mean, keeping each other in check and

utilizing the wisdom of all seven of them. But, you know, each sort of diluting, the others,

or would you rather just have the one strong man at the top?

Well, a lot of teams sort of do have the co-GM thing almost in that there are a lot of front

offices that have former GMs in senior advisor roles or special assistant roles where they have

the experience of having been GMs and they come in and give guidance. But they don't vote.

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