Tyrone Brooks, Sr. Director, Front Office and Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program
Tyrone Brooks is the Senior Director of the Front Office and Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program for the MLB, an initiative that seeks to identify, develop, and grow the pool of qualified minority and female candidates for on-field and baseball operations positions throughout the industry.
Brooks, a veteran of 20 seasons working with major league clubs, previously spent six years working for the Pittsburgh Pirates where he assisted the club in their pursuit of three consecutive playoff appearances. He first worked with the Pirates organization as the club’s Director of Baseball Operations before being named Director of Player Personnel, helping lead the Professional Scouting Department and the International Scouting Department (non-Latin America) while assisting General Manager Neal Huntington with strategic planning and personnel for the Baseball Operations department.
Brooks also spent three seasons as a Professional Scout with the Cleveland Guardians and eleven years with the Atlanta Braves, most recently as their Director of Baseball Administration in 2006. He also served the Atlanta organization as a Baseball Operations Assistant, Area Scouting Supervisor, Assistant, Player Personnel and Director of Baseball Operations. Brooks is the founder of the Baseball Industry Network (@tbrooksBIN), a baseball networking group on LinkedIn that includes over 45,000 members from around the world, covering the full gamut of people working within or connected to the baseball industry.