{"id":352791,"date":"2025-12-16T21:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/352791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:09:07","slug":"mlb-chief-operations-strategy-officer-chris-marinak-leaving-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/352791\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Chief Operations &#038; Strategy Officer Chris Marinak leaving role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">MLB Chief Operations &amp; Strategy Officer Chris Marinak is leaving after 17 years in the league office to pursue new opportunities. A memo was sent to MLB staff members Tuesday about his departure at the end of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Marinak, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2018\/04\/09\/Forty-Under-40\/Hall-of-Fame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2018\/04\/09\/Forty-Under-40\/Hall-of-Fame\/\">SBJ Forty Under 40 HOFer<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2018\/04\/09\/Forty-Under-40\/Marinak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Journal\/Issues\/2018\/04\/09\/Forty-Under-40\/Marinak\/\">Class of 2018<\/a>, joined MLB in 2008 in the labor department, rising to EVP\/League Economics &amp; Strategy and playing an integral role in a pair of CBA deals with the union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">In 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Daily\/Issues\/2017\/12\/12\/People-and-Pop-Culture\/MLB-Hires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Daily\/Issues\/2017\/12\/12\/People-and-Pop-Culture\/MLB-Hires\/\">Marinak was promoted to EVP\/Strategy, Technology &amp; Innovation<\/a>, where he oversaw fan-facing technology (including MLB.com and MLB.tv), ticketing operations and the creation of the schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Three years later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Daily\/Issues\/2020\/08\/24\/People-and-Pop-Culture\/MLB-Execs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Daily\/Issues\/2020\/08\/24\/People-and-Pop-Culture\/MLB-Execs\/\">Marinak\u2019s role expanded<\/a> to include marketing, international and special events, including the All-Star Game, World Series, MLB World tour and World Baseball Classic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB Chief Operations &amp; Strategy Officer Chris Marinak is leaving after 17 years in the league office to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,6856,363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-352791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}