Sounded like the last part of his time in Cleveland was teaching the ropes to the people who would take over his role in Cleveland. Obvioulsy he is going to keeps tabs in Toronto but if that were the case I doubt it would be easy. If you are going to keep Lacava to be the GM you might as well let AA be the GM for a year and "see how it goes" which usually is the case when a new Pres. comes in anyway.