Jimmie Lee Solomon spent 21 years as an executive in Major League Baseball. He oversaw a nationwide facelift to minor league facilities. He started the Futures Game and the Civil Rights Game, and opened Major League Baseball’s first Urban Youth Academy. From 2010 until his departure in 2012, Solomon served as MLB’s executive vice president of baseball development.
So if there’s anyone situated well enough to extoll the virtues of baseball over football for Kyler Murray, it’s Solomon. He counseled Russell Wilson during his baseball-or-football decision in college and keeps in constant contact with Hunter Greene, the No.