Kris Kline joined the Nationals in 2006, was named director of scouting in D.C. in 2009, and promoted to Assistant GM and VP of Scouting Ops in 2013, but towards the end of the 2023 campaign, Kline was promoted to a new role as a special assistant to GM Mike Rizzo.
Rizzo signed a multi-year extension in Washington days after Washington Post writers Barry Svrluga and Andrew Golden reported on the change for Kline.
As the WaPost writers noted in their report, the move for Kline came, “amid major turnover in the Nats’ scouting department,” which included Johnny DiPuglia “the clubs’ international scouting director, [resigning from his role],” shortly after, “.