Detroit Tigers President of Baseball Operations, Scott Harris, made a major hire on Thursday. The club has named Jeff Greenberg as the 20th General Manager in Tigers’ history.
Speculation as to when and where Harris would find his right-hand man has been ongoing since he took over last October. For his part, Harris said all along that he’d make this hire when he had the right person for the job. There were few rumors about potential candidates in the past year, but in the end Harris made a really intriguing hire in Greenberg.
Jeff Greenberg certainly wasn’t a household name until the Chicago Blackhawks hired him in April of 2022 from the Chicago Cubs, where he’d worked in a variety of roles from 2012-2022, advancing to Director of Pro Scouting and eventually Director of Baseball Operations before taking the Blackhawks job.