Terry Ryan, who worked in the Phillies front office as a special assistant to the general manager, has retired, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today. Per Nightengale, Ryan informed friends that he planned to retire from the sport at the end of December.
Ryan, 68, joined the Phillies organization in 2016 as a special assignment scout. He served as general manager of the Minnesota Twins from 1994 to 2007 and returned to the job for a second stint from 2011 to 2016. Ryan served as vice president of player personnel for the Twins when Andy MacPhail was the team’s general manager. Ryan eventually succeeded MacPhail as Twins general manager.
When Dave Dombrowski was hired as Phillies president of baseball operations, he discovered that his longtime rival Ryan was in the organization when he saw him on a video conference with Phillies personnel and figured that the organization could benefit with Ryan in an elevated role. Ryan indicated in a December 2020 press conference that his new title came with more responsibility on the major league side.
“[Terry is] a guy who progressed up the ladder to become a general manager from the scouting end of it,” Dombrowski told Todd Zolecki of MLB.com in March 2021. “But anytime you would talk to people about evaluators of talent, Terry Ryan’s one of the most respected guys. So Terry’s involved in all the conversations we have now.”
Nightengale also reported that the Phillies have hired Brad Sloan to serve as a major league scout.
Sloan, 65, has 40 years of scouting experience. He was hired as a special assignment scout by the Red Sox in 2015 when Dombrowski was the team’s president of baseball operations. From 1996 to 2000, Sloan served as the Padres scouting director. He also worked as a major league scout for the Los Angeles Angels (2004-12) and Atlanta Braves (2013-15). Sloan was let go by the Red Sox in 2020.
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