Adam Ottavino was designated for assignment by the New York Yankees in April and is currently a free agent. The 40-year-old pitcher hasn’t officially retired, though he’s been more active on YouTube than a major league mound since his final game in pinstripes.
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A new report suggests that Ottavino is still looking for work in Major League Baseball — just not as a pitcher.
According to Tim Healey of the Boston Globe, Ottavino spoke with Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort about the team’s head of baseball operations opening.
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Ottavino, a veteran of 15 major league seasons, played for the Rockies from 2012-18. He’s never held a non-playing job in the baseball industry.
The Rockies announced in October that they were looking to replace GM Bill Schmidt; Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post reported at the time that Schmidt was fired.
Both Schmidt and his predecessor, Jeff Bridich, were internal hires. Rockies executive vice president Walker Monfort and Rockies co-owner Charlie Monfort, have since stated publicly they want to bring in voices from outside the organization to shape the future of the franchise.
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Ottavino would be an outside-the-box hire in more ways than one. He’s two years older than San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey, who was only four years removed from his final game as a player when he succeeded Farhan Zaidi in the role last year.
But Posey had spent two years as part of the Giants’ ownership group getting to know the franchise — and the baseball industry — from the team’s executive suite first. Ottavino would be coming in cold.
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There are no shortage of experienced baseball executives who would be interested in the Rockies’ job, and it’s unclear if there is any mutual interest in Ottavino on Monfort’s end. According to The Athletic, the Rockies had hoped to announce a new head of baseball operations last week but have since eliminated Arizona Diamondbacks assistant general manager Amiel Sawdaye and Cleveland Guardians assistant general manager Matt Forman from consideration for the job.
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