{"id":121874,"date":"2025-06-22T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121874\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:29:09","slug":"former-pioneer-press-twins-writer-scott-miller-dies-at-62-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/121874\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pioneer Press Twins writer Scott Miller dies at 62 \u2013 Twin Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Miller, a former Twins beat reporter for the Pioneer Press who went on to become one of the nation\u2019s pre-eminent baseball writers, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 62.<\/p>\n<p>Miller came to Minnesota from the Los Angeles Times. He covered the Twins for six seasons, 1994-99, before leaving St. Paul to become the national baseball reporter for CBS Sports\u2019 website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeartbroken to share: Baseball lost a giant,\u201d USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale, a longtime friend, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BNightengale\/status\/1936537405621981582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">posted on X<\/a>. \u201cScott Miller was a brilliant writer and an even better human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through the years, Miller\u2019s byline appeared in the New York Times and Bleacher Report. He was a frequent contributor to MLB Radio on satellite, and for several years he made regular appearances on television broadcasts for the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>Miller also wrote two books about baseball: \u201cNinety Percent Mental\u201d and \u201cSkipper: Why Baseball Managers Matter and Always Will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: June 21, 2025 at 8:40 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Miller, a former Twins beat reporter for the Pioneer Press who went on to become one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,6423,185,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-121874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesotatwins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-obituaries","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}