Brendan Shanahan's Departure in Toronto Likely to Lead to Another Major Firing in the Organization

Amid the major shakeup for the Maple Leafs, journalist Steve Simmons recently wrote that he finds it to be curious why Shanahan was let go, but that Mark Shapiro, the President and CEO of Major League Baseball's Toronto Blue Jays, is still employed despite overseeing just 5 playoff victories (not series) in 10 years.

Mark Shapiro, whose Blue Jays have won five playoff games in 10 seasons on the job, remains president of the baseball club. The five playoff wins, for the record, came from a team Shapiro inherited in 2016, not from one he built himself.

Edward Rogers, soon to be major domo of all professional sports across Toronto, had to sign off on the expiry of Shanahan's contract and the determination not to offer him a new deal.

Shapiro's contract is apparently up with the Blue Jays right now. It is expected to expire at the end of this season. How he maintains his position in the wake of the Shanahan dismissal is curious at best.

While baseball is 2nd fiddle in Toronto behind the Maple Leafs, one can't ignore that the Blue Jays won consecutive World Series championships in 1992 and 1993 while the Maple Leafs haven't appeared in the Stanley Cup Final since 1967 and haven't advanced to the Eastern Conference Final since 2002.