{"id":524509,"date":"2026-01-17T02:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524509\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:47:13","slug":"bill-schmidt-named-athletics-special-assistant-to-scouting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/524509\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Schmidt named Athletics&#8217; special assistant to scouting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; The <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ath\/athletics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletics<\/a> hired former <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> general manager Bill Schmidt as the club&#8217;s special assistant to the scouting department, the team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Schmidt was appointed senior vice president and general manager of the Rockies in October 2021 and served four seasons in the role. He joined the Rockies in 1999 and served as vice president of scouting dating to 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Before joining the Rockies, Schmidt served as a national crosschecker with <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland<\/a> (1995-99) and as a supervisor of the Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada regions for the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yankees<\/a> (1988-95).<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He also worked for the MLB Scouting Bureau from 1987-88 and began his scouting career with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cin\/cincinnati-reds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Schmidt was named the 2019 West Coast Scout of the Year and was bestowed the Legends in Scouting Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The A&#8217;s relocated to West Sacramento, California, last year to play the first of three planned seasons in the city&#8217;s Triple-A ballpark before moving into a new ballpark in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">A $2 billion, 33,000-capacity stadium on the Las Vegas Strip is under construction. Club officials told the Las Vegas Stadium Authority on Dec. 4 that the ballpark is on schedule to open in time for the 2028 season.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. &#8212; The Athletics hired former Colorado Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt as the club&#8217;s special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[69649,537,3890,5,649,4,3226,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-524509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-69649","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-athletics-athletics","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-espn","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-athletics","15":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115908158706885440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524509","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=524509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}