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While few fans know his name, the SF Giants would have looked radically different without former scouting director Matt Nerland. Nerland passed away this weekend at just 53.
Longtime SF Giants employee Matt Nerland has passed away at just 53 years old. The former scouting director for the organization was diagnosed with a liver condition this past June. He had worked for the Giants from 1989-2019.
Nerland graduated from San Francisco State in the late eighties and was hired as an intern in the Giants baseball operations department in 1989.