{"id":539724,"date":"2026-01-27T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/539724\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:01:28","slug":"major-league-baseball-executive-kurt-zwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/539724\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball executive Kurt Zwald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Kurt Zwald is the senior director of business strategy and analytics for the Seattle Mariners. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The East Honolulu native and Punahou alum recently joined the Mariners after nearly 15 years in a similar role with the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Before becoming a seasoned MLB front office executive, he got his start with Hawaii Winter Baseball in the mid-2000s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In this episode, he discusses the business of pro sports, the experience of working for a championship-winning franchise, and the life lessons learned throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Hawaii News Now. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) &#8211; Kurt Zwald is the senior director of business strategy and analytics for the Seattle Mariners.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,48,71330,66848,71329,4,65],"class_list":{"0":"post-539724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-hawaii-winter-baseball","11":"tag-kurt-zwald","12":"tag-long-game","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-seattle-mariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115964129026471153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539724","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=539724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}