Josh Byrnes Fired

[Shopay]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5347540

[sakata_catching]

By all means, the O's should bring Byrnes into the fold in some capacity. He'd be a great choice to eventually succeed MacPhail.

[Sports Guy]

Stupid move by AZ.

Olney was just on Mike and Mike and said that he polled 12 GMs recently about what GM would you want to run your team and 2 answered Byrnes.

He is looked at as one of the great young minds in the sport and he learned in Boston, the best organization in the sport.

[Mark Carver]

Interesting to note...

Byrnes, once considered a rising star among young baseball executives, has a whopping 5½ years left on a deal that runs through 2015.

[TGO]

New owners do dumb things sometimes.

Byrnes will get another job, unless he wants to sit home and collect a paycheck (I doubt it). I hope it's with us.

[NewMarketSean]

Won't be us.

[clapdiddy]

Wow...it would be great if we could add him as the GM. Let MacPhail stay as VP of Ops until his contract runs out, but let Byrnes start working on deals.

[mweb]

Stupid move by TB.

Olney was just on Mike and Mike and said that he polled 12 GMs recently about what GM would you want to run your team and 2 answered Byrnes.

He is looked at as one of the great young minds in the sport and he learned in Boston, the best organization in the sport.

AZ.

Yeah, he'd be a great guy to go after for us.

[allstar1579]

I forget how this works.

Say he's owed $500K per year by the D-Backs (I know that number is way off, but bear with me). Say my favorite team offered him $1M per year. Does AZ pay the $500K portion or are they now off the hook?

If another team signs him to a full time contract, AZ is off the hook. If he comes to work as a 1099 consultant AZ still has to pay the length of their contract. This is why you see a lot of teams bring a guy in like that as a consultant so they can keep getting paid on someone else's dime, and then they "promote" them and sign them to a new contract when that original one runs out.