It was easy to see why Paul Toboni impressed the Nationals ownership group during his interview process for the team’s then-open president of baseball operations position, a job that he officially accepted earlier this week. He’s charismatic, personable and smart.

What may not have been so obvious to those watching Wednesday’s press conference without being there in person is that those traits extend well beyond his new job. They clearly apply to his role as a father, too.

And Toboni may not even be the best holder of those traits in his own family. During his first 30-minute meeting with the local media, his wife, Danielle, spent most of the time wrangling the couple’s four young boys, who are between the ages of 1 and 6.

She’s the real star of the family.

But as Toboni looked at his young family and thanked them multiple times throughout the day, it was clear that this is a loving family man taking over the Nationals family.

Yesterday was a fun and exciting day for Paul Toboni and his family, as he was officially introduced as the Nationals’ new president of baseball operations. But now that the hands have been shaken and pictures taken, his real work to rebuild the organization in his likeness begins.

How does Toboni, the 35-year-old executive who quickly rose from a baseball operations intern to the senior vice president and assistant general manager with the Red Sox, envision doing that?

“I’m stepping into this role with a clear vision, and that vision is to be the highest performing organization in all of sports,” he said Wednesday. “I want to help build something that becomes the envy of all of sports. Where we get X amount of months and years down the line and people are looking at this organization like, ‘Shoot, I want to be part of that organization.’ We have a lot of work to do. That’s OK. We’re going to embrace it. While it’s going to be challenging, it’s going to be really rewarding when we get to where we want to go.”

Toboni has a lot on his plate as he starts this job. He has to fill out his front office, including making decisions on people he wants to retain and those he wants to replace. He has to hire a new manager and coaching staff, a process of which he gave very little insight to. And he has to evaluate all the players in the organization, from the major league roster all the way down to rookie ball.

That final process he did offer a lot of thoughts about.

Paul Toboni liked his situation in Boston. He was a rising star within the Red Sox organization, a strong candidate to be named general manager and work directly underneath chief baseball officer Craig Breslow for a storied franchise currently in the postseason that already owns four World Series trophies secured over the last two decades.

When the Nationals came calling, Toboni was intrigued enough to take the interview. But he was still unsure if he wanted to uproot his young family and take over a Washington franchise that just completed its sixth straight losing season since winning its one and only World Series title.

It was during his repeated conversations with members of the Lerner family that Toboni made up his mind. He knew plenty about the Nationals. He knew very little about their owners. Once he did, the 35-year-old executive came away firmly believing they were ready to commit to his vision, which convinced him he was ready to commit to theirs.

“We were going to hold a pretty high bar if we were going to leave the Boston Red Sox organization,” he said. “And this cleared it because of that: Ownership’s love of baseball, and how competitive they are. And really, how great of people they are. That’s what I really bought into, which made my wife and I think this was the jump we were going to make.”

Thus did Toboni find himself sitting at a dais in the Nationals Park press conference room this morning, surrounded by three of the club’s principal owners (Mark Lerner, Edward Cohen and Robert Tanenbaum), his wife Danielle and their four very young boys (ages 1-6) seated in the front row watching the Nats’ new president of baseball operations introduce himself to the world.

News broke exactly one week ago that the Nationals had selected Paul Toboni as their new president of baseball operations, the 35-year-old assistant general manager of the Red Sox beating out a fairly deep field of candidates to replace Mike Rizzo on a permanent basis.

This morning, we’ll finally get the official announcement from the team about the hiring, and we’ll finally hear from Toboni (and, presumably, Nats ownership) about this incredibly important change for an organization that had (for better or worse) become a model of stability over time.

The team has scheduled a 9 a.m. press conference at Nationals Park to introduce Toboni. You can watch it live on MASN and right here on this website (with proper TV provider authentication).

We know a little bit about Toboni. He played baseball at Cal-Berkeley and got an MBA from Notre Dame. He began working for the Red Sox as an intern in 2015 and spent the last decade climbing up the organizational ladder through their scouting department before becoming an assistant GM two years ago. He is well-regarded around baseball, has a background in both scouting and analytics and has a reputation as an excellent communicator.

But we have no idea yet what Toboni thinks about the Nationals, what sold him on this job and what his plans are now that he’s officially taking the reins.

The Nationals are finalizing a deal to hire Paul Toboni from the Red Sox as their new head of baseball operations, ultimately choosing to bring in an up-and-coming outside voice to lead the organization rather than staying in-house.

The deal with Toboni is not done yet, but sources familiar with the move confirmed the 35-year-old has been selected by the Lerner family as the choice to replace Mike Rizzo, who was fired as president of baseball operations and general manager in July after 16 years in the position.

Still unclear is Toboni’s new title with the Nationals, whether he is named president of baseball operations, general manager or both, and whether he’ll have a GM as his second-in-command, whether that’s current interim GM Mike DeBartolo or someone else.

No official announcement has been planned yet, but the club has hoped all along to be able to introduce its new head of baseball operations just before or immediately after the season ends Sunday, with Major League Baseball discouraging teams from holding major press conferences during the postseason (which begins Tuesday).

Toboni was one of at least seven reported candidates for the job, joined by DeBartolo, fellow Red Sox assistant GM Eddie Romero, Dodgers senior vice president Josh Byrnes, Cubs GM Carter Hawkins, Guardians assistant GM Matt Forman and Diamondbacks assistant GM Amiel Sawdaye. From that group, only Byrnes (a D.C. native) had previously held a full-time job running a baseball operations department (both Arizona and San Diego).