Scott Harris is an American baseball executive. He is the president of baseball operations of the Detroit Tigers of

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, after having previously served as

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of the

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Early life and education

Harris is from

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. He is the son of two doctors, one a urologist and one an OB-GYN, and has one brother, Chris, and one sister, K.C. Harris attended

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and played soccer and lacrosse in high school. He graduated from the

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(UCLA) in 2009 with a

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in economics, and then attended Columbia Business School. Harris played club lacrosse at UCLA.

Career

Harris' first jobs in baseball were internships with the

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and Cincinnati Reds. He worked for

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from 2010 through 2012, in the Commissioner's Office as a coordinator of Major League Operations. In 2012, he joined the Chicago Cubs as director of baseball operations. He earned his

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from

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's Kellogg School of Management in 2015. He was promoted to assistant general manager in January 2018. The Giants hired Harris as their general manager after the 2019 season. On September 19, 2022, the Tigers hired Harris as their new president of baseball operations after having fired

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a month prior.

References

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