Well. Seeing as I don't believe that we were made awaare of every member of the soprano family, its tough to judge. But for hypo purposes. Id say Barese woulda stepped up to run the family. Obviously, shit was in tatters after tony died, and i think the other crews would have been fed up with leadership. I think Paulie would have stuck running his crew and Barese would have taken the top seat. For whatever its worth...