The Blue Jays have found their replacement, at least temporarily, for recently departed general manager Alex Anthopoulos.New president and CEO Mark Shapiro announced at his introductory press conference at Rogers Centre on Monday that Tony LaCava will serve as the interim general manager. LaCava held an assistant GM position with the club since 2007.Shapiro said there's no timetable to name a full-time GM, and said it's too premature to say whether LaCava, long considered capable of handling the position, would be among the candidates. He did call LaCava a great baseball man and a great evaluator, and said he will lean heavily on him throughout the start of the offseason as the Blue Jays look to construct their club for the 2016 season.The duo previously worked together with the Cleveland Indians. LaCava was a national crosschecker before joining Toronto as an assistant to GM J.P. Ricciardi.Shapiro, who takes over for long-time president and CEO Paul Beeston, also said that John Gibbons will return as manager for the 2016 season.Anthopoulos, who added a number of significant stars over the last calendar year which proved instrumental in helping the Blue Jays win the American League East, turned down a five-year contract extension to return as GM last week. The Canadian-born Anthopoulos took over as the Blue Jays' GM at the end of the 2009 season.