A popular trend in the MLB is to hire presidents of baseball operations in the $5 million to $7 million per year range and then hiring a general manager as well.

The general manager, however, has the basic duties of an assistant GM.

“The duties are just getting bigger,” said Dodgers president and CEO Stan Kasten. “The sheer numbers in personnel, the enormous number of players you have to keep track of, the huge amounts of data we’re getting on both scouting and analytics, all of those things make management of a baseball team more complicated than it used to be.

“I often give the example of the baseball GM vs. the basketball GM since I was involved with the Atlanta Hawks for many years. If you’re a basketball GM you know everything about every player out there, college or pro. You may even know the parents of a guy you’re looking at. In baseball, there are so many players that when you’re making a deal, you may not even have heard of the player 20 minutes before you make the deal.”

Some observers call this "title inflation."

The Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox are just a few teams with this type of structure.