The White Sox are moving quickly to fill a key front-office opening, and they’re doing it by reaching into the Brewers’ organization fresh off Milwaukee’s World Series title.
According to Katie Woo of The Athletic, Chicago is hiring Matt Roffe as its scouting director. The White Sox have not officially announced the move, but multiple outlets have since confirmed it.
“The Chicago White Sox are hiring Matt Roffe as scouting director, league sources tell me and @Ken_Rosenthal. Roffe was previously with the Milwaukee Brewers as an assistant director of domestic scouting.”
Roffe spent this season as Milwaukee’s assistant director of amateur scouting and has worked in a range of scouting jobs over the past four years. Before that, he had stints with the Diamondbacks and Padres, and he got his start in baseball in 2016 as a Statcast intern.
The hire fits a pattern for Chicago. The White Sox also pulled Walker McKinven from Milwaukee to serve as bench coach in 2025, and this latest move continues Chris Getz’s habit of adding people from organizations that have built strong reputations for development.
Roffe’s exact title in Chicago still hasn’t been finalized publicly, but Getz previously said the White Sox were looking for a “Director of Amateur Acquisitions,” a role that would line up with Roffe’s background in amateur scouting.
The timing matters, too. After having the first overall pick for the first time in 50 years last season, the White Sox are now set to pick in the 22-24 range this year after their run to the playoffs.
That means they won’t be sitting on a can’t-miss name like Roch Cholowsky, but they’ve shown they can still uncover impact talent late in the first round. Colson Montgomery and Noah Schultz both came in as late first-round picks and now count as important pieces of the club’s current contention window.
If Chicago wants to keep turning itself into a stronger player-development operation, Milwaukee is the kind of blueprint it makes sense to study. And in this case, the White Sox aren’t just studying it - they’re hiring from it.
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