The Chicago Cubs have a great president in Theo Epstein, but he would make a great commissioner for Major League Baseball.
The Chicago Cubs have done a lot of boneheaded things since winning the World Series in 2016. That doesn’t mean that Theo Epstein isn’t probably the greatest mind in the game today and in consideration for one of the best baseball operations managers in the history of the sport. They were a pretty bad organization before he showed up with his crew and now the Cubs are back to being one of the good franchises in the game of baseball. Theo deserves a lot of credit for that.
He ended an 86 year World Series drought for the Boston Red Sox in 2004 and a 108-year drought for the Chicago Cubs in 2016. That is a combined 196 years without a World Series title for the two franchises and Theo built championship rosters for each of them. He took on the two biggest droughts in the sport with two of the five most prominent franchises and ended them.