Beloved Minnesota Twins scouting director Mike Radcliff dies

Radcliff had worked for the Twins since 1987.

The Minnesota Twins and many longstanding members of the Major League Baseball community are mourning the death of Twins' scouting director Mike Radcliff. 

Radcliff was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019 before surgery to remove the tumor made him cancer-free in September 2020. Patrick Reusse reports that Radcliff died after "docs kept pancreatic cancer at bay for a time."

A source from the Twins confirmed Radcliff's death to Bring Me The Sports and said the team was prepared to release a statement in the near future. 

Numerous baseball insiders have reacted to the news of his death. 

Radcliff joined the Twins in 1987 – the year they won their first World Series – and was a renowned scout before being named the vice president of player personnel in 2007. His bio on the Twins website is the stuff of legends. 

"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."

No scouting director in baseball had held the position as long as Radcliff did with the Twins, dating all the way back to 1993.