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In 2021, Ibañez and Michael Hill were named Major League Baseball's senior vice presidents of on-field operations, with responsibility for overseeing umpiring, discipline, and other on-field issues. [65] In 2024, he left that role to return to the Dodgers as vice president of baseball development and special projects. [66]
Baseball made its last Olympic appearance and Korea took the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. The IBAF, under President Harvey Schiller, attempted to reinstate baseball onto the Olympic Programme, but the IOC vote of August 2009 kept baseball off the 2016 program, as golf and rugby were selected.
The Softball Division is governed by an executive committee that has twenty-three members: president, secretary general, 1st vice president, 2nd vice president, treasurer, twelve vice presidents (two each for Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Oceania, and one each for North America and English-speaking Caribbean), two at-large members ...
Vice President: 1973–1974 President: 1974–1977 Dick Fosbury: Track and Field 1968 Olympic high jump gold medal winner ID: Candidate for State Representative: 2014 Democratic: Commissioner of Blaine County: 2019–2023 Steve Garvey: Baseball First baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres: CA: Candidate for Senate 2024 ...
Following the 1999 season, the American and National Leagues were merged with Major League Baseball, and the leagues ceased to exist as business entities. The role of the league president was eliminated. [10] In 2001, Bill Giles, son of Warren Giles, was named honorary president of the NL. [11]
John McHale, Jr. is a Major League Baseball executive, who works as the league's chief information officer (CIO) and executive vice president of administration. McHale was previously the assistant general manager of the Colorado Rockies in 1993, the president of the Detroit Tigers from 1995 to 2001, and chief operating officer of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays from 2001 to 2002.
Byrnes joined the San Diego Padres as senior vice president of baseball operations in 2010. In 2011, he was promoted to general manager. [10] By spring 2012, it was clear that MLB was not going to approve Jeff Moorad’s purchase of the Padres. [11] As a result, Byrnes was an inherited GM for a new ownership group led by Ron Fowler.
Jimmie Lee Solomon (March 11, 1956 – October 8, 2020) was an American lawyer and baseball executive. He served as the executive vice president of baseball operations in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2005 to 2010, before going on to serve as the executive vice president for baseball development from 2010 to 2012.