It’s that time of year, as we’ve discussed, when you look around baseball at various openings and job searches, thinking not only about what the Cubs could do to improve their own front office, but also thinking about who might get poached.
To that end, Chicago Cubs Assistant GM Jared Banner reportedly features prominently in the search for the A’s new top baseball executive:
Phillies’ Sam Fuld, Cubs’ Jared Banner among top candidates to take over A’s. Story with @PJ_Mooney, unlocked and free to read. t.co/XQxV1NuK0o
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 7, 2026Banner and Fuld are the only names mentioned explicitly in the article, and a decision could come as soon as this week. To me, that suggests a situation where it’s down to those two, and would involve other names only if the A’s could not finalize a deal with either of those guys. But I’m just speculating based on a read of the report.
Banner began his front office career on the scouting and player development side with the Boston Red Sox back in 2007. He worked his way up the ranks there to become VP of Player Personnel, before heading to the New York Mets as their Director of Player Development in 2018. He then came over to the Cubs as a VP in late 2020 under Jed Hoyer, took over Farm Director duties, and then was named an Assistant GM in late 2023.
You never want to see the front office lose talent, but I am appreciative of the fact that at least this process appears to be playing out relatively quickly early in the postseason. That could give the Cubs a lot of time to respond with their own internal or external reorganization, if necessary.
Given ownership’s historically tight budgetary limitations, you might think the Athletics job is not all that attractive. But, first of all, literally any shot to run your own baseball operations department is going to be attractive. Second of all, with the franchise on the cusp of the move to Las Vegas, it’s not hard to imagine an executive feeling like it was a particularly good time to get on board and shepherd the organization through that process, particularly with all their young talent.
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