McLeod Named Senior VP of Player Personnel

[Cubswin11]

Pretty big shift for him from the development to Major League side.

 

[jersey cubs fan]

is this in order to make it more difficult for hoyer to poach him?

[Stu]

maybe they are trying to take him off the market?

[Cubswin11]

Would assume this is a way to keep other teams away and also may be the first steps of the Theo succession plan. Keep elevating McLeod who becomes GM when Jed becomes President of Ops when Theo is gone in a few years.

[Brian]

Could it also be they want to promote somebody to his position?

[Sammy Sofa]

Would assume this is a way to keep other teams away and also may be the first steps of the Theo succession plan. Keep elevating McLeod who becomes GM when Jed becomes President of Ops when Theo is gone in a few years.

 

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[sneakypower]

we'll always have the 3 top-10 picks spent on OFs producing no league average starter

[Cubswin11]

Could it also be they want to promote somebody to his position?

Oh I think that’s a big part too, which is exciting they’re making changes on the player development side. Eno Sarris recently had an article saying he was hearing multiple teams were going to be making sweeping changes to player development sides of their organizations.

[Cubswin11]

McLeod is still pretty highly regarded as a scout/executive so it will be nice to have his skills being used on the major league team with the day-to-day stuff. I take it to mean being in charge of shifting, lineup construction/usage, advanced scouting, etc type stuff which is clearly something we’ve been lacking for a few years now.

[Cubswin11]

McLeod is still pretty highly regarded as a scout/executive so it will be nice to have his skills being used on the major league team with the day-to-day stuff. I take it to mean being in charge of shifting, lineup construction/usage, advanced scouting, etc type stuff which is clearly something we’ve been lacking for a few years now.

 

I think alot his duties will be aimed towards identify the guys worth pursuing at the ML level, all of who were probably prospects while in his previous role for the Cubs

That works too