Jocketty got his start in baseball when he was hired by Charlie Finley and assembled the Bash Brothers by drafting Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco for the A’s.

Walt Jocketty, a legendary executive with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals, has died, Major League Baseball confirmed Saturday. He was 74. "On behalf of the entire St. Louis Cardinals organization,

The Cardinals won the National League Central Division seven times under Jocketty’s leadership, as well as the 2004 NL pennant and 2006 World Series.