Overview
- Multiple outlets reported Friday that the Tigers have hired Jay Sartori as vice president for baseball operations, a move first published by The Athletic and confirmed by The Detroit News.
- Sartori originally built the club’s first data bank, known as Caesar, after joining Detroit in 2015 and spent roughly a decade in the organization rising to vice president and assistant general manager.
- After leaving in late 2025 to become the ACC’s vice president for sports technology and innovation, Sartori returns with experience from Apple and front-office roles with the Blue Jays and Nationals.
- The team expects Sartori to lead projection systems, analytics, operations and emerging-technology projects, working alongside existing analytics and strategy executives.
- Observers say the hire could shift the Tigers’ front-office alignment and signal a more analytics-driven, youth-oriented approach in the coming offseason, and it fits a wider MLB trend of re-integrating tech leaders into team operations.