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How to find a manager
One part of the process is game simulations, in which the candidate is handed lineup cards, statistics, a history of the relievers’ workloads and other relevant facts. A candidate will watch a tape of a game with the Cubs’ brass, who will stop the tape at various junctures to ask the candidate what he would do in a particular situation.
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“We’d try to create some intensity, so we got right in his face and asked for an answer pretty quickly,” president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said. “We weren’t looking so much as to what the managerial candidate said, in terms of the strategy he would employ, but what pieces of information he would use — what his thought process would be in trying to make a decision (under pressure).”
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