Introduction
Scott Harris is an American baseball executive. He is the general manager of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Education
He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in economics, and then attended Columbia Business School.
Life and career
Harris is from Redwood City, California. He is the son of two doctors, one a urologist and one an OB-GYN, and has one brother and one sister. He attended Menlo School and played soccer and lacrosse in high school.
Harris played club lacrosse at UCLA. Harris' first jobs in baseball were internships with the Washington Nationals and Cincinnati Reds. He worked for MLB from 2010 through 2012, in the Commissioner's Office as a coordinator of Major League Operations. In 2012, he joined the Chicago Cubs as director of baseball operations. He earned his Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management in 2015. He was promoted to assistant general manager in January 2018.
The Giants hired him as their general manager after the 2019 season.