Welcome to Walt Jocketty

It's been announced today that the Reds have hired Walt Jocketty as a "special advisor" to Bob Castellini. That's rather exciting. He's a three time execitive of the year. He has over 30 years of experience in baseball. Jocketty put together several winning clubs and great trade deals as the GM for the Cardinals for the last 13 years. He will report directly to Castellini. The description of the position makes him sound like a co-GM, but officially he is only a special advisor. Jocketty had been in contact with several teams. He chose the Reds because the others would have had him answering to the GM and he has a working history with Castellini. According to an article on the Reds main site, Jocketty and Krivsky are on the same page with what they want to do with the club. I hope this goes well. Let's hope that Jocketty is not just the GM-in-waiting. Though, even if he is, we could do much, much worse than having Jocketty as our GM.