General Managers

General Managers

The General Manager, or GM, of a baseball team typically controls player transactions and is responsibile for contract discussions with players. They are also the person who typically hires and fires the team manager and their coaching staff.

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present links to team lists that show all known general managers. PLEASE note that this menu was created in April 2007 and research into general managers has just begun.

"Why would you (Gene Michael) want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?" - George Steinbrenner in The Cultural Encyclopedia of Baseball (Jonathan Fraser Light, 2004)

General Managers In Alphabetical Order
American League General Managers	National League General Managers
Chicago White Sox General Managers	Atlanta Braves General Managers
Cleveland Indians General Managers	Brooklyn Dodgers General Managers
Future Expansion Area	Chicago Cubs General Managers
American League General Managers	National League General Managers
General Managers

When Ken Williams took over as General Manager of the Chicago White Sox in 2000 he, along with White Sox Manager Jerry Manuel became the first all-minority manager / general manager combo in Major League history.

Did you know that the youngest General Manager in history to date is Theo Epstein of the Boston Red Sox? Upon taking the position at age twenty-eight he said, "The best advice I got was given by Buzzie Bavasi. He said to remember that every time you're about to make a deal, the guy on the other end of the phone is just as smart as you are, probably smarter."

The first use of the General Manager label during baseball was applied to former American League umpire William "Billy" Evans in 1927 who was the General Manager of the Cleveland Indians.

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