Former Los Angeles Dodgers vice president of amateur scouting Logan White announced his retirement from professional baseball during the Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla.
White was most recently a member of the San Diego Padres front office as the senior adviser and director of player personnel, a role he took over in 2015.
The announcement of his retirement came this week while White was being honored for his work as an evaluator in 2025, according to Dennis Lin of the Athletic:
Weeks after his most famous draft pick retired from pitching, San Diego Padres player personnel director and former Los Angeles Dodgers scouting director Logan White announced his retirement while being honored Tuesday as one of Major League Baseball’s Scouts of the Year recipients.
White’s most famous success story is Clayton Kershaw, who was drafted by the Dodgers with the seventh overall pick in the 2006 MLB Draft. It was one of 13 drafts that White oversaw with the Dodgers organization.
During that time in L.A., White’s draft classes had produced 72 Major Leaguers. It has included the likes of Russell Martin, Chad Billingsley, Matt Kemp, James Loney, Joc Pederson, Nathan Eovaldi, Corey Seager, Cody Bellinger and Kershaw. Bellinger would go on to thank White during his National League MVP acceptance speech in 2019.
Additionally, White’s role expanded to include international operations, and he assisted in the Dodgers signing Yasiel Puig and Julio Urías.
Between the amateur draft and international signings, more than 100 players reached the Major Leagues under White’s leadership.
Logan White’s baseball life
White lived a full baseball life as an athlete, evaluator and front office member. He played high school baseball in New Mexico and spent time at two different junior colleges before arriving at Western New Mexico State University.
White played two seasons at WNMU and was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the 23rd round of the 1984 MLB Draft, becoming the first player ever drafted from his university.
He would join the Mariners’ scouting department four years later as an associate scout. From 1990-2001, White worked his way up to West Coast supervisor across various stints with the San Diego Padres and Baltimore Orioles.
He joined the Dodgers in 2002 as the director of amateur scouting and was promoted to assistant general manager of amateur and international scouting in 2006. He was elevated again in 2012 to vice president of amateur scouting.
White was responsible for the evaluation of all players at the Major Leagues, Minors, amateur and international levels since returning to the Padres in 2015. His efforts have played a key role in the Padres’ roster building efforts, which has involved trading away tons of prospects in exchange for Major League talent.
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