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Following his purchase of the Mets from the Wilpon family, Steve Cohen and newly appointed team president Sandy Alderson relieved Brodie Van Wagenen of his position and removed many of his top aides, including Special Assistant to the General Manager Omar Minaya, Assistant General Managers Allard Baird and Adam Guttridge, and Executive Director of Player Development Jared Banner. According to Jon Heyman, the Mets will be replacing Banner with Kevin Howard as their new Executive Director of Player Development.
According to his predecessor, Howard’s job will be “to find innovative and creative ways to help our players get better from the time they sign with us until they reach the major leagues.” He will be tasked with working with other executives as well as the minor league coaches, coordinators, and instructors under him to develop strategies and policies to maximize the potential of the players in the system. Given his role, Howard will
MLB gives Chinese talent something to swing for By MURRAY GREIG | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-12-22 08:18 Share CLOSE MLB is bringing entry-level baseball classes to school kids across China with its First Pitch clinics. The program was launched in September in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, and is organized in conjunction with the China Baseball Association and local education and sports bureaus. CHINA DAILY
Major League Baseball has partnered with Prep Baseball Report scouting service to open another potential path to the big leagues for talented youngsters－including those from China.
With the September launch of its First Pitch clinics at Fengying Primary School in Wuxi and the ongoing success of student-player development centers in Wuxi, Changzhou and Nanjing, MLB continues to spur baseball s growth in the world s most populous nation, where iResearch estimates around 8.5 million youngsters play the game.