DETROIT -- Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila announced several changes to the club’s front office on Tuesday, promoting two executives, demoting a third and changing the responsibilities of another.
* Sam Menzin and Jay Sartori will now have the title of vice president and assistant GM.
* Current assistant GM David Chadd is transitioning to a role more focused on player development and scouting and will spend more time in Lakeland, Fla., and with the club’s minor-league affiliates.
* Dave Littlefield, who served as VP of player development, will now be a special assignment scout. Kenny Graham, who was the club’s director of player development, will take over Littlefield’s duties on an interim basis. Avila said Graham will be considered for the permanent role along with outside candidates.
Tigers are expected to look outside their organization for next player development director, and have started reaching out to clubs for potential interviews. At this point, Kenny Graham is the only internal candidate, Al Avila said.
Menzin, 31, has been the club’s director of baseball operations and professional scouting for the last four years and is considered a close adviser to Avila.
He’s involved in basically every aspect of the organization,” Avila said.
Sartori, 42, has spent six seasons with the Tigers, starting the club’s analytics and research departments from scratch.
“Now that we have a full team (in the analytics department), as we move forward, we will actually go even further,” Avila said. (Sartori) is already starting that process.”
Graham was hired as the club’s player development director two years ago after serving three years as a minor-league hitting coordinator with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Avila said the club has already begun asking permission to interview candidates from other organizations.
“We’re looking to be a more progressive organization,” Avila said. “We’ve been a very traditional organization as far as our way of teaching, and we will not lose our old-school ways by any means. But we want to be a little bit more progressive and start using more technology, more science.”
TIGERS FRONT OFFICE LEADERSHIP
Executive vice president and GM: Al Avila
Vice president/assistant GM: David Chadd, Sam Menzin, Jay Sartori
Vice president, player personnel: Scott Bream
Vice president, player development: Kenny Graham (interim)
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