Glass Interviews GM Candidates

With the draft less than two weeks away, the Star is reporting that David Glass is just getting around to interviewing candidates to replace Allard Baird (who, for the record, hasn't even been fired yet). Yesterday Glass interviewed Dayton Moore, 39, in Atlanta. Moore "is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the Braves' scouting and player development in his role as the assistant general manager for baseball operations." According to the article, Moore interviewed for the GM position in Boston last season. Sounds like Glass also interviewed Frank Wren, 47, the Braves' vice president and assistant GM for player personnel.

What took so long? Why wait until this close to the draft to begin interviewing candidates? How can we possibly expect a new GM to step in this late in the game and draft successfully? Even though I'm sure that both of these, and any other candidates who may exist, are already combing our system and attempting to put together a strategy if they are offered the job, surely they don't have complete access to all of the information they need. And given their current positions, I'm guessing they don't have enough time to do so even if they had access.

Allard Baird has made mistakes with this organization. From bad trades, to bad free agent signings, to a relatively dry farm system, but given the way Glass has handled Baird in recent weeks, it's making me believe that the real problem lies at the feet of the owner and not the GM. As much as I think a shake up is necessary, this is almost the worst possible time to do it since we're so close to draft day. And the odd thing is—it's not like the draft just magically appeared on the calendar one day. Glass knew when it was, and yet he waited.

Strange.