The White Sox officially hired Matt Roffe, a 30-year-old from the World Series champion Brewers, as director of amateur scouting to lead their draft.
The White Sox made it official Thursday: Matt Roffe is their new director of amateur scouting, putting a 30-year-old from the World Series champion Brewers in charge of the South Side draft room.
The announcement came late Thursday morning, a week after Katie Woo and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic first reported the Sox were hiring him. The title was the open question. GM Chris Getz had previously said the club was hiring a “director of amateur acquisitions,” the Sun-Times reported, but as James Fegan noted, the job is “director of amateur scouting” after all.
“Matt brings a clear vision for how amateur scouting can continue to evolve, pairing the insight and conviction of our scouts with objective information and strong collaboration across the organization,” Getz said in the team release. “His experience with Milwaukee’s draft and player development processes will be valuable as we continue growing our own approach to consistently identifying and developing impact talent.”
Roffe spent five seasons in Milwaukee, working as coordinator and then manager of scouting operations before a promotion to an assistant director role in November 2025, MLB.com’s Scott Merkin reported. Before that, he was a player personnel and pro scouting analyst with Arizona from 2019 to 2021, overlapping with current Sox assistant GM Josh Barfield, then the Diamondbacks’ director of player development.
“I’m honored and excited to join this historic organization, and I look forward to working with the White Sox scouting department and front office staff to build upon their successes,” Roffe said. “The draft is a collective organizational effort that requires strong communication, collaboration and the combined experience of everyone involved. Through the identification and acquisition of impact amateur players, we will work toward our shared goal of bringing another World Series championship to the South Side of Chicago.”
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He fills the job Mike Shirley left when he resigned Sept. 12. Shirley ran the 2026 Draft, when the Sox held the largest bonus pool in MLB Draft history and took UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky first overall.
Why it matters: Roffe is the latest outside hire in a Getz front office that has been rebuilt mostly with people from other organizations, and he comes from a Brewers operation that won a title on the strength of its scouting and player development rather than payroll. Getz said in September the club was looking at “a different way of doing business” in the department. Now the 2027 Draft is Roffe’s to run.