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Cubs Hire Dan Kantrovitz As Vice President Of Scouting

By Steve Adams | November 13, 2019 at 4:29pm CDT

The Cubs announced Wednesday that they’ve hired Dan Kantrovitz away from the Athletics to serve as their new vice president of scouting. Kantrovitz had been an assistant general manager with Oakland for the past five years, working under executive vice president of operations Billy Beane and general manager David Forst.

Kantrovitz broke into baseball operations with the Cardinals in 2004 and has had multiple stints in both the St. Louis and Oakland front offices — including a run as the Cardinals’ director of scouting from 2012-14. During that time, the Cards drafted the likes of Michael Wacha, Stephen Piscotty, Carson Kelly, Kyle Barraclough, Marco Gonzales, Oscar Mercado, Luke Voit, Luke Weaver, Daniel Ponce de Leon and 2019 breakout ace Jack Flaherty.

Since returning to the Athletics for the 2015 season, he’s been elevated to assistant GM and tackled a variety of responsibilities within baseball operations. Per the Oakland media guide, Kantrovitz had a “primary focus on overseeing statistical analysis for evaluating and targeting players in the amateur draft, free agent and trade markets.”

Kantrovitz played shortstop in college at Brown University and graduated with a degree organizational behavior and management. In 2009, he completed a Master’s Degree in statistics at Harvard University.

The hiring of Kantrovitz comes two months after the Cubs announced that vice president of amateur scouting and player development Jason McLeod would transition to the role of vice president of player personnel. More recently, director of amateur scouting Matt Dorey was named senior director of player development.

Bruce Levine of CBS Chicago/670 The Score first reported the hiring of Kantrovitz, via Twitter

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  1. rondon

    6 years ago

    This guy is sharp… and for a change, he doesn’t come from Theo’s Boston or San Diego family tree.

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  2. theoepsteinhof

    6 years ago

    Could have been an interesting discussion as some may have insight with Kantrovitz. But, as usual on this site, the thread is just garbage talk.
    A shame…It didn’t used to be this way a few years ago.

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    • dynamite drop in monty

      6 years ago

      Can I have your parking spot when you leave

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  3. Thundercub12

    6 years ago

    Not from Boston check. Not from San Diego Check. Has had success drafting players past 1st thru 3rd round check. Can only hope his voice will not be drowned out by the all the hold overs

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