The opinions of Scott Reid were important to Dave Dombrowski and Al Avila, a one-two punch at the top of the Detroit Tigers' organization in the mid-2000s and beyond. They worked together with the Florida Marlins before bringing winning baseball back to Detroit.
Reid, a longtime Tigers scout, died at age 74, the team announced Wednesday. He served as a scouting director, vice president to the general manager, vice president of player personnel and senior adviser upon arriving to Detroit with Dombrowski in 2002.
"Myself, along with so many others across the baseball community are saddened to learn of Scott Reid’s passing," Tigers general manager Al Avila, who joined the Tigers not long after Dombrowski and Reid, said in a statement Wednesday.