Minor League Executive Of The Year: Bob Richmond
Long-time Northwest League president Bob Richmond, who also helped found the Arizona League, is our 2012 Minor League Executive of the Year.<br/>
Long-time Northwest League president Bob Richmond, who also helped found the Arizona League, is our 2012 Minor League Executive of the Year.<br/>
No person may be better suited for a team than Todd Parnell and the Richmond Flying Squirrels. Or perhaps it's the other way around. Either way, Parnell and Richmond's dream team of a front office have built a winning franchise that manages to match the boss' passion for a good time.
Monty Hoppel has managed to succeed in the heart of football country, which explains why the Midland general manager is our 2010 Minor League Executive of the Year.
International League president Randy Mobley likes to joke that he never knows where Norfolk Tides president Ken Young is going to call in from on the road. Young, a man of many hats with a unique background as a team owner, is the veritable "Where's Waldo" of minor league baseball. However, he's no simple face in the crowd, but rather one of the most respected, and busy, operators in the game.
Naomi Silver swears she was not trying to follow in her father's footsteps. It was only after the Rochester Red Wings' chief operating officer helped save minor league baseball in neighboring Batavia that she realized how the act so closely resembled an achievement of her father some 50 years ago.
After 16 years of working behind the scenes to guide minor league baseball through its most successful period in history, it is only fitting that Mike Moore was reluctant to step into the spotlight after receiving the news that he had been named Baseball America's Minor League Executive of the Year.
Alan Ledford has helped the Sacramento River Cats become one of minor league baseball's flagship franchises.