24When Alex Anthopoulos quit as Jays GM rather than work under a new boss, Shapiro was painted as Toronto’s foremost villain. What a difference a season makes. The team returned to the ALCS, buoyed by Shapiro’s savvy off-season signings. Meanwhile, the Cleveland squad he built from the ground up made it to the World Series. The Jays enjoyed their best attendance numbers since 1993, packing half a million more fans into the Rogers Centre than last year. TV viewership also spiked, averaging one million per game, some 12 per cent higher than in 2015.
He was portrayed opposite Brad Pitt in Moneyball, though he says his scenes were fictional.
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