Nationals' Paul Toboni hires his No. 2: A 31-year-old GM

"The Washington Nationals are hiring 31-year-old Anirudh Kilambi as their general manager, two team sources confirmed Wednesday night. The move gives new president of baseball operations Paul Toboni a second-in-command atop the organization's front office hierarchy. Kilambi arrives from the Philadelphia Phillies, where he spent four years as an assistant general manager overseeing their analytics department. The hiring, first reported by ESPN, fits the Venn diagram the club has targeted this winter - Kilambi is young, comes from a competitive organization and is data-oriented."

"The only thing surprising about the hire is that Toboni made it after saying in early November that he didn't plan to hire a general manager 'at this point in time.' The top of Washington's front office structure - a group tasked with turning around a club that has not won more than 71 games since 2019 - now includes Toboni, Kilambi and three assistant GMs."

Anirudh Kilambi, 31, was hired as the Washington Nationals' general manager after four years as an assistant general manager overseeing analytics for the Philadelphia Phillies. He joins president of baseball operations Paul Toboni as a second-in-command atop the front office hierarchy. The front office now includes Toboni, Kilambi and three assistant GMs: Mike DeBartolo (baseball operations), Justin Horowitz (acquisitions) and Devin Pearson (player development). Kilambi previously worked in the Tampa Bay Rays' analytics department and brings a data-oriented background from competitive organizations. Washington has been modernizing analytics but faced questions about past integration under Mike Rizzo, and Toboni wants alignment between data and traditional baseball backgrounds as the club seeks improvement after 2019.

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