Vice President, Player Personnel
Mike Radcliff, a member of the Twins organization since 1987, was named Vice President, Player Personnel in September of 2007. Among the game’s most revered talent evaluators, Radcliff was named 2011 Scout of the Year in the Midwest by his peers in Major League Baseball, was inducted into the Professional Scouts Hall of Fame in July of 2014 and elected to the Killebrew Root Beer Professional Scouts Hall of Fame in September 2021. In addition, Radcliff was the 2016 recipient of the George Genovese Lifetime Achievement Award in Scouting, given by the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation.
In his current role, Radcliff is involved in all evaluation processes—major league, minor league and amateur—and helps to oversee all of the scouting staffs, including pro, amateur and international.
Radcliff, who was named the Director of Scouting in 1993, was the longest-tenured scouting director in Major League Baseball. As Scouting Director, Radcliff managed 27 full-time and 34 part-time scouts, and coordinated the annual amateur draft as well as the international scouting staff.
Radcliff is a 1979 graduate of the University of Missouri and began his scouting career as an area scout with the Major League Scouting Bureau in 1983. He was hired as an area scout by the Twins in 1987 and promoted to Midwest Supervisor in 1988.
Mike and his wife, Sherry, have two grown children and reside in Overland Park, KS.