Major League Baseball\u2019s amateur draft has been a lifelong passion for Matt Roffe.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I was a kid, I was going through draft manuals, Baseball America, things like that,\u201d\u00a0Roffe said during a video conference Thursday after the Chicago White Sox officially named him their new director of amateur scouting. \u201c(I) just love evaluating players \u2014 especially amateur players.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited, looking forward to this opportunity. It\u2019s a lifetime dream and something I\u2019ve been looking for my entire life, so I can\u2019t wait to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sox said Roffe, 30, will oversee their strategy for identifying, evaluating and selecting amateur talent. He mentioned the importance of strong collaboration with the player development and research and development departments as well as all of the scouts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really excited to blend those pieces together and get to great outcomes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Roffe spent the last five seasons (2022-26) with the Milwaukee Brewers, serving as their assistant director of amateur scouting this year after being promoted to the position in November 2025. He was manager of scouting operations in 2024-25 and coordinator of scouting operations in 2022-23.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Sox general manager Chris Getz said Roffe\u00a0\u201cbrings a clear vision for how amateur scouting can continue to evolve, pairing the insight and conviction of our scouts with objective information and strong collaboration across the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roffe picked up plenty during his time with the World Series champion Brewers<\/a>, mentioning vice president for amateur acquisition Tod Johnson and vice president for domestic and international scouting James Armstrong.<\/p>\n \u201cThe biggest thing I\u2019ve learned over the years has been empowering scouts and giving them a voice,\u201d Roffe said. \u201cAnd try to blend the objective information that\u2019s in place with their subjective take on players. It\u2019s a human game. There\u2019s always a need for refined eyes out in the field, evaluating players.<\/p>\n \u201cSo to have the opportunity to combine all those different inputs into a single valuation is really exciting, but especially to raise the voices of our scouts and make sure they have a platform to share what they think of each player.\u201d<\/p>\n Roffe\u2019s experience includes internships with the San Diego Padres in research and development in 2018 and with the Brewers in baseball operations in 2019. He spent two seasons (2020-21) with the Arizona Diamondbacks as a player personnel analyst before the Brewers hired him in October 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was with the Diamondbacks, I was all pro scouting, and that gave me a good foundation for what to look for,\u201d Roffe said. \u201cSo when I came to the Brewers and started spending more time in the draft, I had a good foundation of the types of things that translate to value in the big leagues.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is really the space where you get to infuse talent into an organization. You\u2019re going to get your 20 or more picks, so it\u2019s an incredible opportunity to partake in that and infuse an organization with impact players.\u201d<\/p>\n Reports of Roffe\u2019s hiring<\/a> by the Sox first surfaced Oct. 29.<\/p>\n \u201cNow that I\u2019m here and part of this,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019m excited to get to know people on a personal level and work together as a team to accomplish bringing another World Series championship back to the South Side.\u201d<\/p>\n More Sox news<\/p>\n The Sox announced the signing of pitcher Alec Marsh to a minor-league deal with a spring training invitation. The right-hander went 12-18 with a 4.96 ERA in 43 appearances (33 starts) over two seasons (2023-24) with the Kansas City Royals. He has been working his way back from a right shoulder impingement and reportedly from labrum surgery<\/a>. Marsh has 208 strikeouts and 78 walks in 203 1\/3 career innings.
\nFour Sox players \u2014 Chase Meidroth (second base), Miguel Vargas (third base), Tristan Peters (outfield) and Sam Antonacci (utility) \u2014 are finalists for American League Silver Slugger awards. The Sox also were named a finalist for the AL Silver Slugger team award. Winners will be announced Nov. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball\u2019s amateur draft has been a lifelong passion for Matt Roffe. \u201cSince I was a kid,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[23558,379485,2318,377717,2325,363,1289,99],"class_list":["post-907363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-alec-marsh","tag-amateur-scouting","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-matt-roffe","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907363","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=907363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}