General Manager
Flores, 51, joins the Astros from the St. Louis Cardinals, where he served as the club’s Assistant General Manager of Amateur and Pro Acquisition. Flores has been an Assistant GM with the Cardinals for eight seasons (2019-26) after joining the Cardinals front office as their Director of Scouting in 2015.
Flores pitched parts of eight seasons in the Major Leagues (2002-10) appearing in over 200 games as a relief pitcher. After his playing career, Flores returned to his alma mater of USC, earning a M.Ed Postsecondary Administration in 2014. During graduate school he was USC’s Pitching Coach (2013), worked as a college baseball analyst for ESPN and Pac-12 Networks, and founded a sports video technology company. He returned to Major League Baseball as the Cardinals Director of Scouting in 2015.
A native of Pico Rivera, CA, Flores and his wife, Lindsey, have two daughters, Sloane and Rowan, and one son, Hawkins.