{"id":407,"date":"2008-05-03T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T13:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=407"},"modified":"2009-09-26T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T10:41:38","slug":"bbfb-volume-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"BBfB: Volume 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00c2\u00a0latest installment in\u00c2\u00a0my Baseball Basics for Brits<\/em> series is now available.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Voume 4 is titled: ‘The Front Office’: Owners, General Managers and Field Managers.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Coming from a football background, there were several parts of a typical\u00c2\u00a0MLB organization’s structure that mystified me when I first started following the sport.\u00c2\u00a0 The most obvious difference\u00c2\u00a0to your normal football structure is that the process of acquiring and trading players is taken out of the manager’s hands and is instead the responsibility of the General Manager.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, some football teams have started following this pattern by appointing a Director of Football: a position that often ends up causing friction in the corridors of power with the football club.<\/p>\n

Volume 4 provides an overview of the Front Office before going into detail about the responsiblities of the Owners, the General Managers, the ‘Field’ Manager and his coaching staff.\u00c2\u00a0 You can find it as a printable pdf, alongside the other three volumes, via<\/em> the separate BBfB page<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The\u00c2\u00a0latest installment in\u00c2\u00a0my Baseball Basics for Brits series is now available.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Voume 4 is titled: ‘The Front Office’: Owners, General Managers and Field Managers.\u00c2\u00a0 Coming from a football background, there were several parts of a typical\u00c2\u00a0MLB organization’s structure that mystified me when I first started following the sport.\u00c2\u00a0 The most obvious difference\u00c2\u00a0to your normal football […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[553],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-info","tag-mlb-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}