{"id":561081,"date":"2026-03-24T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561081\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:23:07","slug":"longtime-mlb-executive-jim-small-retiring-may-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/561081\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime MLB executive Jim Small retiring May 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Longtime MLB executive Jim Small is retiring on May 1 after more than 40 years in baseball, both with teams and as president of the World Baseball Classic for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Small began his baseball career in 1983 in public relations positions with the Cubs and Rangers, followed by nine years with MLB\u2019s PR department from 1987-96. He worked in PR at Nike in Beaverton from 1996-98, and he was MLB VP\/International Development, based in N.Y., from 1998-2003, followed by 15 years in Tokyo overseeing MLB\u2019s Asia business as VP\/Asia-Pacific. He was named MLB SVP\/International in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Jeremiah Yolkut will take on leadership of the World Baseball Classic, with his title changing from SVP\/Global Events to SVP\/Global Operations &amp; Events. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime MLB executive Jim Small is retiring on May 1 after more than 40 years in baseball, both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-561081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}