The Pittsburgh Pirates have hired scout Wayne Mathis to take over amateur scouting for the draft in the southern parts of Texas and Louisiana starting in January. For the last 14 years, Mathis has worked for MLB’s scouting bureau providing reports to all 30 teams. This article mentions that Mathis will replace the Pirates’ area scout for Texas/Louisiana, who went on to a pro scouting job with the Tampa Bay Rays.
The Texas/Louisiana area scout for the Pirates this year was Tyler Stohr, who was responsible for signing Ke’Bryan Hayes, Tate Scioneaux and John Bormann from the 2015 draft class. There is no confirmation that Stohr left(and he wasn’t mentioned in the article), but that was his position in the organization, so he fits the description. Mathis played two years in the Mets’ farm system, then was out of baseball for 11 years before taking up scouting.
