{"id":936461,"date":"2026-10-22T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936461\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:02:09","slug":"as-considering-hiring-gm-under-taylor-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/936461\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s Considering Hiring GM Under Taylor Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletics <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/10\/athletics-hire-taylor-smith-as-president-of-baseball-ops.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">finalized<\/a> the hiring of their new president of baseball operations, Taylor Smith, on Monday. At Smith\u2019s introductory press conference, owner John Fisher suggested they could also hire a general manager to work as the #2 front office executive (link via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/taylor-smith-introduced-as-athletics-president-of-baseball-operations?partnerID=web_article-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mart\u00edn Gallegos of MLB.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an increasingly common front office structure around MLB. The A\u2019s had gone that route when Billy Beane and David Forst were the top two in the hierarchy. That changed at the end of the 2022 season when Beane transitioned to an advisory role and turned baseball operations autonomy to his longtime lieutenant. Forst ran the front office for three and a half seasons. Fisher made a change at the beginning of August when it became clear they were en route to a fifth straight losing season.<\/p>\n<p>While many GM changes presage a move in the manager\u2019s office, that\u2019s not going to be the case with the A\u2019s. In February 2025, the team signed Mark Kotsay to an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/02\/athletics-extend-mark-kotsay-manager.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extension<\/a> that runs through the \u201928 campaign with a club option for \u201929. Smith expressed his excitement about working with the sixth-year skipper, saying Kotsay \u201cseems like someone who is hungry for all the information (the front office) can get him, and I think it\u2019ll be a great partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics finalized the hiring of their new president of baseball operations, Taylor Smith, on Monday. At Smith\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,22991,591,85],"class_list":["post-936461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mark-kotsay","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}