Daniel P. Evans (born January 27, 1960) is an American professional baseball executive. Within

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, Evans was most recently a scout for the

Toronto Blue Jays The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Since 1989, the team has played its home games ...

. He is currently a member of the Baseball Prospectus Advisory Board, serves on the board of directors for the

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(SABR) and is President of SABR's Rocky Mountain Chapter. Evans attended

Lane Technical High School Lane Tech College Prep High School (often shortened to Lane Tech, full name Albert Grannis Lane Technical College Preparatory High School), is a public 4-year selective enrollment magnet high school located in the Roscoe Village neighborhood on ...

on Chicago's North Side and

DePaul University DePaul University is a private, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul. In 1998, it became the largest Ca ...

. He started in baseball as an intern with the

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while a junior at

and was eventually promoted to Assistant General Manager. After almost 20 years, Evans resigned from the White Sox following the 2000 season. During his tenure, he was responsible for drafting or acquiring future

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Frank Thomas,

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, and

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, among others. Evans then became the Executive Vice President and General Manager of the

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from 2001 to 2004 during which they ended a seven-year postseason drought. Among the players drafted under Evans were all-stars

Matt Kemp Matthew Ryan Kemp (born September 23, 1984) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He began his professional career in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 2003, and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Dodgers fr ...

and Russell Martin. While Dodgers' GM, Evans promoted the first Taiwanese player
Chin-Feng Chen
to the Major Leagues. Evans was later responsible for the Pacific Rim Operations of the Toronto Blue Jays and also scouted Major League and minor league players. He was Commissioner of the Northern League of Professional Baseball in 2013, which folded before playing games due to the league's ownership issues. Evans authored a column "108 Stitches" for '' Baseball Prospectus'' before working for the Blue Jays. In 2013, he also became an instructor for the online sports-career training school

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. Evans' Twitter account, @DanEvans108, was honored as a
Top 100 Must-Follow Sports Business Twitter Account of 2014
by ''Forbes'' and has also been named among the "Top 50 Baseball Related Twitter Accounts" by Baseball America. Evans was born in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria and Rockf ...

. He has two daughters and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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