This despite an extended stint as interim coach that had initially suggested the Red Bulls hierarchy were reluctant to entrust the team to a first time coach, however steeped in the club's culture he might be.
His opposite number during the forthcoming Ashes series, Darren Lehmann, described Bayliss as a "great servant of the game" and entrusted the team to him for a recent T20 series against South Africa.
But he and Steve Mills, the chief operating officer of Madison Square Garden sports, have entrusted the team to Thomas and will offer an open checkbook to him to continue the makeover.
Facing the wild-card leader San Diego on Friday, with his staff ace Ben Sheets out because of a strained left hamstring, Yost entrusted the team's threadbare postseason hopes to Chris Capuano (5-12), whadhad not won since May 7. In a pregame ceremony, a trumpeter played "Taps" to honor local veterans.
"I have decided to entrust the first team to Mike Ford," the Toulon president, Mourad Boudjellal, said in an unusually terse statement.
Those are big shifts in a business model, and ones I guided and helped, but the big part of actually doing it, I entrust the management team to do that.
But what about a patient or a potential study participant who asks to be spared tedious descriptions of her different options, and would rather entrust the medical team, or her village elder, with all or some decisions?
Entrusting the slugging positions of first base and designated hitter to Casey Kotchman and Ken Griffey Jr. was a mistake, and the team re-acquired first baseman Russell Branyan in a trade with Cleveland last week.
Imagine entrusting the tough questions to a referee: Mother Earth.
