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In short time, Byrnes has put D-backs in enviable position

By Jonah Keri
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Editor's note: This is the first in Jonah Keri's series of Q&As with top players and executives from the Cactus League. Josh Byrnes spent more than a decade working his way up the ladder in the front offices of the Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox. Under John Hart, he helped the Indians become one of the most successful teams of the 1990s. He then spent two years under Dan O'Dowd devising ways to battle Coors Field's altitude while planting the seeds for a farm system that ...

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