Bill Smith (born 1958) is an American sports executive, who served as the fifth general manager for the

Minnesota Twins The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis. The Twins compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central Division. The team is named after the Twin Cities area w ...

. He took over October 1, 2007 from longtime manager and mentor Terry Ryan. The Twins fired Smith as general manager on November 7, 2011, and replaced him with his predecessor, Ryan. Six weeks later, Smith was given a new role in the Minnesota organization as assistant to both GM Ryan and club president Dave St. Peter. Smith graduated from

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...

in 1980. After leaving the Minnesota Twins organization in January 2017 he became Assistant to the President in the Minor League Baseball Office in May. He lives in

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, with his wife Becky and their three daughters.

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