Only a few days after the Detroit Tigers hired Rob Metzler away from the Tampa Bay Rays as the Vice-President and Assistant General Manager to run the scouting department, Metzler now has his scouting director. The Tigers raided another good organization to find their man, hiring long-time San Diego Padres scouting director, Mark Conner, to head up the Tigers amateur scouting department.
Conner joined the Padres as a scout back in 2010, and was the organization's scouting director from 2015-2021. After the 2021 season, Padres GM A.J. Preller moved him to a new role as special assistant to the general manager.