The Miami Marlins have made another noteworthy front-office hire, sources said Friday, and you’ll never guess which team he used to work for: the Yankees.Dan Greenlee joins the Marlins as director of player personnel, a role in which he won’t be a household name but will be a significant voice in player acquisitions, 40-man roster decisions and the like.He is, to a degree, a replacement for Jeff McAvoy — the Marlins’ vice president of player personnel until he was fired by the new ownership group in September — but with tier-down job title.
With the Yankees, Greenlee was a Tampa-based player development analyst, working under Gary Denbo — now the Marlins’ vice president of player development and scouting, then the Yankees’ VP of player development. Yankees legend/Marlins CEO Derek Jeter has a long history with Denbo, and Denbo and Greenlee worked closely while with New York.Greenlee has an interesting non-baseball background. He studied journalism at Ohio University, according to his LinkedIn page, and received a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 2011 (not uncommon in major league front offices).
That analyst theme continued as Greenlee moved into baseball, joining the Yankees in 2013.
He also worked for MLex Market Insight, a media organization that provides “exclusive market insight, analysis and commentary on regulatory risk,” according to its website. Greenlee’s LinkedIn says he was a merger analyst, assessing antitrust risk for proposed mergers.
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