With the 2024 MLB season underway, The Athletic canvassed 40 executives across the sport to examine the question of which front office is the best in baseball. Many had experience as the primary decision-maker for a team, either in the past or the present. We asked each executive to rank the top five front offices in baseball and assigned a point value to each position \u2014 10 points for first place, seven points for second place, five points for third, three points for fourth and one point for fifth.<\/p>\n
Check out what executives around the league had to say about the Atlanta Braves<\/a>:<\/p>\n Total points:<\/p>\n 130 President of baseball operations:<\/p>\n Alex Anthopoulos<\/p>\n Alex Anthopoulos likes to refer to his two years with the Dodgers<\/a> in 2016 and 2017 as a form of baseball graduate school. He had been a successful executive with the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a>, ending the franchise\u2019s 21-year postseason drought in 2015 before walking away from the gig that winter. He had always been, as one executive put it, \u201cvery aggressive\u201d in his willingness to deal. When he took over the Braves heading in 2018, he married that quality with wisdom gleaned from his previous stops.<\/p>\n \u201cAlex Anthopoulos does a tremendous job,\u201d one executive said. \u201cThere\u2019s nobody more engaged, open and honest about things. He\u2019s had stops along the way and he\u2019s adapted and learned over time.\u201d<\/p>\n He has built something of a juggernaut in Atlanta through a series of canny trades and swift contract extensions for cornerstones like Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr., Ozzie Albies, Austin Riley, Matt Olson and Sean Murphy. After winning the World Series in 2021, Anthopoulos pivoted out of talks with first baseman Freddie Freeman and swung a trade for Olson. The maneuver stunned the industry but further demonstrated Anthopoulos\u2019 decisiveness.<\/p>\n \u201cAlex Anthopoulos knows what he wants and moves quickly in the offseason,\u201d one executive said.<\/p>\n Some executives raised questions about whether the team will continue to draft well now that former scouting director Dana Brown has left to run the Astros<\/a>. The good news for the Braves: With all those long-term extensions, the roster won\u2019t require much mending for a while.<\/p>\n Check out the full ranking here<\/a>:<\/p>\n
First-place votes: 3<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/team-logo-94-50x50.png\"\/){kind=logo}
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