Age:
41
Hometown
:
Winnetka
High school:
New Trier
College: Michigan, Harvard Law School, Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of management
Pre-White Sox:
Associate for two years at Steinberg, Noorad & Dunn sports agency.
Years with Sox:
12
The negotiator:
As assistant GM he negotiated deals with Paul Konerko, Chris Sale, Gavin Floyd, Alexei Ramirez and John Danks, among others.
On free agent class:
“Given the sort of, shallowness, of this year’s free agent market and the fact there are some clubs with money to spend, I’m not overly optimistic for any huge players in free agency.”
On re-signing Pierzynski:
“It’s impossible to handicap. But there was pessimism this time two years ago, so I don’t get caught up in whatever pessimism there is now.”
On his dream job:
Thanked his parents for “for never trying to talk sense into me as I was potentially flushing away a lot of education, but this is what I had in mind.”
