Re: Jobs in MLB, the pros and cons (a bit off topic I guess)
Guy that I used to work for who evaluates talent and works for the Reds used to be an intern and later a GM in minor-league baseball.
He got his masters in sports-administration from Ohio University (the one in Athens, OH...not Ohio State....O.U. has an outstanding program).
He went from selling $2 tickets and making sure there was enough mustard for the hot-dogs to doing talent evaluation at the big-league level.
So it's kind of possible that route too.
But he had other advantages such as having played minor-league ball up to the AA level (a pitch hit him in the eye ending his career) so he knew some people. He's also an awesome networker.
For Kyleb - if you want to learn more about how this stuff works you could conceiveably try going to an affiliated minor-league game early and try meeting some of the scouts or something and asking about it.
Lots of the Asst-GM's or directors of scouting etc started off just as regular old scouts.
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