Rockies To Narrow Front Office Search To Finalists Next Week

"There are three known interviewees for the Rox's top job: Royals assistant GM Scott Sharp, Guardians AGM Matt Forman, and Blue Jays vice president of baseball strategy James Click. It's not clear how many other candidates are under consideration. Click is the only one of those three who has experience running a baseball operations department. He led the Astros between 2020-22, winning a World Series in the last of those seasons."

"Patrick Saunders of The Denver Post hears similarly and writes that the Rox still have yet to determine whether the new hire will be given the title of general manager or president of baseball operations. That could be based on whomever they hire. If they tab a GM from another club, they'd need to give that person the president of baseball ops title to represent a promotion."

"With the Nationals hiring Paul Toboni as president of baseball operations, the Rockies are the only team searching for a new front office head. While the front office leader is the most significant hire, Saunders reports that the team is also set to hire a chief revenue/strategy officer. That person will work mostly on the business side, though the stated goal is for increased revenues to be reinvested back into the team's notoriously thin baseball operations infrastructure."

The Rockies remain the only MLB team still searching for a new front office head after the Nationals hired Paul Toboni. The club will narrow its search to finalists next week and has three known interviewees: Scott Sharp, Matt Forman, and James Click. Click is the only candidate of the three with prior experience running a baseball operations department, having led the Astros from 2020-22 and winning a World Series in 2022. The team has not decided whether the hire will carry the GM or president of baseball operations title. The organization also plans to hire a chief revenue/strategy officer and is operating without interim baseball operations leadership after recent departures.

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