Just going to pair these together because they go hand in hand.
1. You’d be hard pressed to go to any organization right now and not find someone who was a scout or analyst or lower level exec for Cleveland in the late 90s to late-2000s in a high level position.
2. After all that purge happened and most of the front office was poached, that’s when Shapiro promoted around him (CA to GM) and strategically started hiring Baseball America, Baseball Prospectus, and internet scouts to fairly lower level positions before that was even a thing. It then took a little while for those guys to become the primary voice in the scouting/drafting process.
Shapiro laid the groundwork for everything you are seeing happen over the last decade. The drafting improvements, international FA improvements, etc. all of those high level decision makers now are guys Shapiro targeted from non-traditional means.
And then teams started copying that idea and now teams are poaching again. The cycle will continue to go on and on.