Don’t feel bad if you don’t know the name Zack Scott. From 2004 through the end of 2020, he worked on the baseball ops side of the Red Sox front office, though never in a particularly public-facing role. In December 2020, he jumped ship to the New York Mets to work under newly-hired GM Jared Porter, who himself had worked for the Red Sox from 2004 through 2013, and then with the Cubs under Theo Epstein.
When Porter was caught in a sexting scandal and fired after less than two months on the job, Scott was named the Mets acting GM.