CEO of St. Pete-based Minor League Baseball will retire
September 8, 2020 - Pat O'Conner, president and CEO of Minor League Baseball, has announced he will retire on Dec. 31. O’Conner has spent 38 years in professional baseball and 28 years with St. Petersburg-based Minor League Baseball. He joined the Minor League Baseball staff in 1993 as chief operating officer and was named vice president, administration, following the 1995 season. In December 2007, O'Conner was named the 11th president of Minor League Baseball, embarking on a 13-year run as president as he was re-elected in 2011, 2015 and 2019. O'Conner's tenure is the fifth-longest presidency in Minor League Baseball's 120-year history, a news release said. This year's Minor League Baseball season was cancelled in June, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.