The Detroit Tigers have rented Jeff Greenberg to be their normal supervisor, including a former Chicago Cubs and Chicago Blackhawks government to paintings with group president of baseball operations Scott Harris.

“It’s an extraordinary honor to take on this role with one of the most historic franchises in Major League Baseball,” Greenberg mentioned Thursday. “Throughout my conversations with Scott, (team owner) Chris Ilitch and the rest of the team with the Tigers, it became clear that this organization is headed in a great direction with an incredible culture of development and innovation that I’m excited to be part of.

“Any other consistent message in the ones conversations used to be that Tigers lovers wish to see successful baseball deep into October. I’m excited to get to paintings with our entrance place of business on offseason and longer-term plans to manufacture that our truth.”

Detroit is tied with the Los Angeles Angels for the longest active postseason drought that dates to 2014.

The Tigers — 10 games below .500 entering Thursday’s game at Oakland — are headed toward their seventh straight season with a losing record.

Greenberg was the Blackhawks’ associate general manager for 1 1/2 years after working in baseball for 15-plus years.

The Cubs hired him in 2012 as a baseball operations intern and worked his way up to become assistant general manager in 2020 during his 11-season run with the franchise that included a World Series title that ended an 108-year drought.

The Pittsburgh native earned a law degree at Columbia after graduating from Pennsylvania. While attending the Ivy League schools, he served as an intern for his hometown Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks and Major League Baseball.

“I’m delighted so as to add an government of Jeff’s constituent to our baseball operations management group,” said Harris, who was hired a year ago after being the San Francisco Giants’ general manager for three years. “During this seek, it used to be impressive for me to search out any individual who can are compatible seamlessly into the tradition we’re construction right here.

“I also wanted to bring in someone with a fresh perspective and new ideas that could challenge us on a daily basis and make us all better as we strive towards our goal of bringing postseason baseball back to Detroit.”

Reporting by means of The Related Press.

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