In the wake of Alex Anthopoulos replacing JP Ricciardi as Toronto Blue Jays general manager and Anthopoulos making several front office moves of late, the Blue Jays have announced that the Washington Nationals director of amateur scouting Dana Brown has left his position with Washington to become a special assistant to Anthopoulos. Brown is responsible for the drafting of pitchers Stephen Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann and John Lannan by the Nationals. Brown & Anthopoulos have known each other since their days together with the Montreal Expos, in which Brown hired Anthopoulos to the team’s scouting department. The move by Anthopoulos possibly [...]