Rank the GMs
I did a poll for ESPN.com about ranking GMs thanks to help of my good friends at WSI. I always love to talk about this topic. Give me your top five GMs and awful GMs. I will give you my rankings on these GMs.
To me, the best GM in baseball is Terry Ryan. Look what he has do with Carl every year. It was a tough decision. I like Dave Dombrowski. I think he is great too. I went with Terry because he has rebuilt this team every year. There is a reason why he was the Executive of the Year by the Sports News. As for the worst GM in baseball, I went will Bill Bavasi of Seattle. Mariners farm system blows and they have nothing exciting. Also, from the rankings that I wrote, there are so many bad GMs. For all the attention that Theo Epstein and Brian Cashman has undeserving got, they are not that good without the big budgets. Epstein's magic has clearly gone.
Here are my rankings:
1) Ryan
2) Dombrowski
3) Schuerholz
4) Beinfest
5) Shapiro
6) Williams
7) Jocketty
8) Beane
9) Towers
10) Minaya
11) Gillick
12) Prupura
13) Stoneman
14) Colleti
15) Riccardi
16) Melvin
17) Krivsky
18) Sabean
19) Littlefield
20) Moore
21) Daniels
22) Hendry
23) O'Dowd
24) Epstein
25) Bowden
26) Flanagan
27) Brynes
28) Cashman
29) Friedman
30) Bavasi
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