Oct. 23: John Hart, the architect behind the Indians when they won six AL Central titles in the ‘90s and played in the World Series in both 1995 and 1997, decides to take team president John Schuerholz up on an offer to run the realigned baseball operations department. Hart will do it with a newly created position as president of baseball operations rather than general manager. The Braves dismissed general manager Frank Wren a month earlier.