The word 'gms' is not a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an abbreviation that could stand for any number of things, so it is not clear what it means without context.
But they could certainly offer a club enlightened stewardship, equal or superior to all but a handful of GMs.
The reason GMs make less money than players do isn't because owners are blind to the contributions of an elite executive.
The rest of the top ten was made up of four kinds of VW, three GMs and two Hyundais.
None other than the Los Angeles Dodgers themselves: Mr Friedman, whose formal title is president of baseball operations, has plucked one of the sport's finest assistant GMs to work under him in a more senior role.
And in the 1990s a handful of pioneering GMs like Gene Michael and Mr Beane's mentor Sandy Alderson deployed early quantitative discoveries with great success.
Today, Fox Sports offers entirely statistics-friendly broadcast teams, and of current GMs only Rubén Amaro Jr could fairly be accused of remaining in the analytic Stone Age.
Replacement level can also be extended to assess the relative worth of athletes to GMs.
In those days, elite GMs certainly did deserve similar compensation to the players they acquired.But the publication of "Moneyball" in 2003 brought modern analytic techniques to the mainstream and let the cat out of the bag.
And the new wave of GMs tend to see the NBA's convoluted rules not as a straitjacket but as an opportunity for "regulatory arbitrage".This trend probably began in earnest in 2002, when two private-equity magnates bought the Boston Celtics and hired Danny Ainge, an analytically minded former player, as GM.
