Last week, The Star featured a great biopic of recently named General Manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, 32-year old Alex Anthopoulos! You can read more in The Star
Anthopolous, simply with just the credentials of a well-earned business degree at McMaster's school of business, DeGroote, has raised in the ranks of Major League Baseball, and particularly in the Toronto Blue Jays' organization to practically running the show at age 32.
Six years spent as J.P. Ricciardi's aide has earned him the title- and you've got to like the swift politically correct businessman- on J.P. Ricciardi he said that every general manager has their strengths, and J.P. had some, but he also had some flaws...
Smooth, poised and ready to rock as a superstar in the business of sports is Alex Anthopoulos?
The Toronto Blue Jays' on-field performance will surely be the dictator of that, I'm sure, but I am a 4th year business student myself, and if Alex, through steadfast dedication can rise up to the highest ranks of Major League Baseball in ten years of service, the sky's the limit, really, isn't it for all us future grads? If we focus on the main goal of doing what we love, and continuing to do it while exploring every opportunity that we've allowed to fall into our laps, eventually we'll get where we want to be, I'm sure. A good man once said, "Create the Conditions to be Successful"- and Alex certainly did just that.
He's an inspiration to all Canadians, he really is, to land a big job like this one, to earn the respect of a legendary Blue Jays' president Paul Beeston. And maybe he'll blow the big sharks in the Yankees and the Red Sox out of the water time and time again.
I will say this though- the man must prove himself first, because under J.P. Ricciardi, even with Alex as his assistant, the Blue Jays were nothing more than mediocre. So how different can things be under J.P.'s assistant?
Only time will tell.
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