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Ben Cherington hired as Blue Jays vice-president of baseball operations
TORONTO – Ben Cherington was hired as the Toronto Blue Jays new vice-president of baseball operations on Wednesday.
Cherington spent most of his career with the Boston Red Sox organization.
He and Jed Hoyer were Boston’s co-general managers for 2005 and 2006. In 2006 he was made sole GM of the team, and resigned the post in August of 2015.
After leaving the Red Sox, Cherington joined Columbia’s Sports Management faculty where he taught a course in sports leadership for the 2015-16 academic year.
Cherington was named Major League Baseball Executive of the Year for 2013 by The Sporting News.
He was only the third Red Sox executive to win the award since its origination in 1936, following longtime owner Tom Yawkey (1946) and late general manager Dick O’Connell (1967; 1975).
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