The Rays promoted Kevin Ibach to assistant general manager and vice president of baseball operations, reports Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. He had previously held the title of vice president of player personnel.
Ibach, 45, is entering his 12th season with the organization. A La Salle product and former college player, Ibach never played professionally. After college, he worked in the Miami and Baltimore organizations. He moved to the Rays after the 2012 campaign.
Initially hired as a pro scout, he has quickly ascended the ladder in the club’s scouting department. Within four years, he’d been tabbed as director of pro scouting. He eventually took on the title of director of pro personnel before getting the bump to player personnel vice president last offseason.
One year later, he becomes the fourth member of the Tampa Bay organization to get the AGM title. Ibach joins Will Cousins, Chanda Lowdermilk and Carlos Rodriguez as assistant GMs working underneath president of baseball operations Erik Neander. The Rays lost their #2 front office staffer, GM Peter Bendix, when he was hired as baseball ops president with the Marlins in early November. Tampa Bay hasn’t filled the GM vacancy, instead distributing Bendix’s former responsibilities among their collection of AGMs.
BrianStrowman9
Chanda Lowdermilk is the name of a human being? Huh.
TrumboRedux
“Lowdermilk” is an A-grade player name. Decent exec name.
YankeesBleacherCreature
*Lawdermilk (typo)
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Correct, Law not Low, she is their Assistant GM for diversity and inclusion.
YankeesBleacherCreature
Oh, what makes you that?
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Brian Strowman9
Are you a bigot because your tone didn’t sound like the many playful name jests that I read here?
its_happening
That escalated.
Tone or not, doesn’t make the person a bigot.
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BrianStrowman9 posted: “Chanda Lowdermilk [sic] is the name of a human being? Huh.”
In the context of her being one of the few women who is a baseball Assistant GM, it sounds bigoted to me to say “is the name of a human being”. Not light hearted at all. That’s why I asked the poster.
its_happening
Understandable that you’d take up for people you’d deem to be marginalized and/or victims.
See what I did there? That’s called an assumption. It’s easy to do. You did it by asking if someone is a bigot. Stop it.
labial
This guy is future GM of the Angels, mark it dude
stymeedone
This should definitely help sell tickets!
Tom the ray fan
Assistant GM or Assistant to the GM?
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rememberthecoop
I would have thought that titles like “Director of Pro Personnel” and Player Personnel would rank higher than “Asst GM”, because they are more defined and specialized, whereas Asst GM literally could mean helping sort out logistics and such. Plus, most teams have several Asst GMs.
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Kevin Ibach, a proud LaSalle University Explorer!
bringoutthegimp
Who?