Logan White is leaving for the Padres fuck Logan White to work for Padres Updated: October 27, 2014, 1:24 PM ET By Mark Saxon | ESPNLosAngeles.com LOS ANGELES -- The San Diego Padres have hired longtime Dodgers amateur scouting director Logan White to their front office, sources told ESPN on Monday. The feeling around baseball when the Dodgers hired Andrew Friedman to be their president of baseball operations was that he would want to bring in his own people in key front-office positions. With White departing, he'll have at least three top positions to fill. It is not clear which position White will fill with San Diego. In Los Angeles, Friedman has vacancies at general manager, amateur scouting director and farm director. The Dodgers' previous general manager, Ned Colletti, was reassigned to an advisory role, and farm director DeJon Watson left before Friedman's hiring to work for Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Dave Stewart. White was involved in drafting Clayton Kershaw and Matt Kemp, among others, and with the signing of Cuban defector Yasiel Puig two summers ago in Mexico, where he also found one of the Dodgers' top minor league prospects, pitcher Julio Urias. White leaves the Dodgers with three of baseball's top 20 prospects on his résumé -- Urias, outfielder Joc Pederson and infielder Corey Seager. White worked for the Padres from 1993-95 and interviewed for their vacant GM position before San Diego hired A.J. Preller from the Texas Rangers. It's unclear how much power a new GM under Friedman would wield, but it could be similar to the role most assistant GMs fill. The Dodgers have had discussions with former Arizona and San Diego GM Josh Byrnes, who was spotted at an Arizona Fall League game last week with Dodgers president Stan Kasten. The Dodgers will retain pro scouting director Rick Ragazzo as well as their pro scouts and player development staffs, a source said last week. __
the front office didn't even consider White for the GM job and that's supposedly why he left. just turning it all over to Friedman
He's been interviewing for GM jobs for years now so the organization even before Friedman was okay with him leaving. I'm not saying they wanted him gone by any means but seems like they were fine and ready to see him advance his career elsewhere
Yeah I mean there's a TON of context missing and lots of info we don't know but I did wonder why he never got chosen as a GM with his numerous interviews.
Surprised this didn't happen years ago. But he's not leaving for a GM job, so I have to wonder how his new job is better.
It'll suck to see him gone, but it was time. There is a new regime coming in and they want to do more. BTW, I think that Kasten should get a lot of the credit for the new wave of young players that we have. He may have a higher position than GM with the Padres.
Well. It isn't like we even made it to the World Series under Watson and White. I'm more upset about the idiot managing the team still being employed by the Dodgers.
logan's fucked he thought it was a senior position turns out it's a señor position? :fiesta: bang out some mariachi tunes bkitch!!! yeah, racist... i know... White leaves Dodgers for senior position with Padres By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com | @kengurnick | 11:09 AM ET Logan White congratulates a young Clayton Kershaw on growing his first pube. Photo: DSP LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers vice president of amateur scouting Logan White confirmed Monday that he is leaving the club to a senior position with the San Diego Padres. That gives new president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman a clean slate to overhaul the three key areas of the Dodgers' baseball-operations department -- the Major League roster, scouting and the farm system. White's departure to a division rival follows the hiring of Friedman, the reassignment of general manager Ned Colletti to senior advisor and VP of Minor Leagues De Jon Watson's move to another division rival, the D-Backs. Friedman has given no indication of who will replace them or how the front office will be structured, other than to say he probably will hire a GM. "I like Andrew a lot," White wrote in a text. "It was a tough decision." White worked with new Padres GM A.J. Preller when the latter was an assistant in the Dodgers' baseball-operations department from 2002-04. White ends a 13-year run with the Dodgers that was highlighted by the drafting of superstars Clayton Kershaw and Matt Kemp, as well as All-Stars Chad Billingsley, Russell Martin, Jonathan Broxton and Dee Gordon. White also selected two of the club's current top prospects, Corey Seager and Joc Pederson. White's eye for talent was further illustrated by his instrumental role in the scouting and signing of several international players who had significant impact, such as Yasiel Puig, Hiroki Kuroda, Hyun-Jin Ryu and Julio Urias. And like Colletti and Watson, he did all that despite the restrictions imposed on his department during the bankrupt ownership of Frank McCourt. The Draft philosophy of White, a former pitcher, was to take pitching, and then more pitching. Of his 13 Drafts, he took pitchers first in 11 of them. That left White sometimes fending off criticism for the organization's shortage of impact position prospects, necessitating the acquisition of high-priced veterans through trades and free-agent signings. It was never clear, however, whether the lack of position players was as much about the Draft as the development system. More than 50 of White's Draft selections have reached the Major Leagues. In 2010, the Dodgers were named Topps Organization of the Year and in 2006 Baseball America's Organization of the Year. White joined the Dodgers from the Baltimore Orioles, but this isn't his first stint in San Diego, where he was West Coast supervisor from 1993-95. Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. __
I'm happy for White to get the opportunity to grow his legend. I'm not so happy that it is within our own division.
Logan White Leaves Dodgers, Joins Padres Front Office By Jeff Todd [October 27, 2014 at 7:24pm CDT] The Padres have hired Logan White as senior adviser to general manager A.J. Preller and director of pro scouting, the club announced today. The 51-year-old had served the Dodgers for 13 seasons, reaching the position of VP of amateur scouting. White’s name has surfaced several times in recent months (as it had in previous years) as various teams, including the Padres, conducted GM searches. (MLBTR’s Ben Nicholson-Smith profiled White as a GM candidate back in 2011.) His internal situation in Los Angeles may have become unsettled with the hiring of Andrew Friedman and re-assignment of former GM Ned Colletti. In his former position, the release says, White oversaw both the Dodgers’ amateur draft (with such notable successes as Clayton Kershaw and Chad Billingsley) and its international amateur efforts (helping to land players like Yasiel Puig, Hyun-jin Ryu, and Hiroki Kuroda). As his specialty area would suggest, White comes with a background in scouting. He ascended through the ranks for 15 years — including a stint with San Diego — before reaching the front office ranks with the Dodgers. White’s new position seems to be rather expansive. He will have responsibility “for overseeing all of the organization’s professional scouting efforts and player acquisition at the Major and minor league level,” per the press release. __