You took the answer out of context, here is the whole answer. And if he doesn't trust Zoll which he shouldn't, Tom is the not answer.
In sports most team owners especially the successful ones are hands off, they hire competent personnel to run the operations staff. This was the typical way the Pohlads until Joe was named Executive owner and they were primarily successful. We don't know what Tom's role is, he stated he wanted to learn the business side which was Dave St. Peter's role when he first took over. Everyone is assuming he is making personnel decisions and I don't believe he is, I am not sure even he is that dumb, but who knows.
He should have brought in a Senior Advisor and a lot of these questions wouldn't be out there.