8:36pm: The Nats have also contacted Diamondbacks a sistant GM Amiel Sawdaye and Dodgers senior vice president Josh Byrnes, . Sawdaye has worked as one of Mike Hazens top executives in Arizona for nearly a decade. Byrnes, a former head of baseball operations in San Diego and Arizona, has been part of Andrew Friedmans team in Los Angeles since 2014. Byrnes and Sawdaye have both been in consideration in various front office searches over the past few years. 8:28pm: The Nationals interviewed Cubs general manger Carter Hawkins in their search for a baseball operations leader, reports . Washington dismi sed longtime front office head Mike Rizzo alongside manager Dave Martinez in July. A sistant general manager Mike DeBartolo has taken over operations on an interim basis for the past three months. That included the pivotal decision to select with the #1 pick in the draft and overseeing their relatively quiet trade deadline. DeBartolo has been Anthony Edwards Jersey a member of the organization for over a decade and worked as one of Rizzos top lieutenants for the past six seasons. suggested this evening that DeBartolo is likely to get some consideration for the full-time position. The final call should only be a few weeks away. Svrluga indicates the Nationals hope to have a decision made by the end of the season. Its sensible they wouldnt want an interim GM going into the offseason. Nightengale writes that Hawkins interviewed last week and calls him a finalist for the position. That suggests ownership has already begun to narrow the field. Hawkins, 41, has been Chicagos general manager since the beginning of the 2021-22 offseason. As is increasingly common, that makes him the #2 decision-maker. Title inflation around the league means that few teams now have a general manager atop their front office hierarchy. Thats usually held by a president of baseball operations (Jed Hoyer, in the Cubs case) with the GM standing as the second in command. Thats why the Cubs would permit Hawkins to interview with the Nationals. If he were to get the job, it would represent a promotion and presumably come with his own president of baseball operations title. Before going to Chicago, Hawkins spent over a decade working his way up the Cleveland front office. He worked as an a sistant GM there for five seasons. Elijah Griffin Jersey