#paul-toboni

#paul-toboni

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 Washington Nationals are in the very early stages of establishing an entirely new front office. With their most pivotal offseason in a very long time just getting underway now, the Nationals and their fans know that there is a lot of work to be done in order to return the organization to its former glory as one of the most consistent competitors of the 2010s.