RIP Scott Miller

[Jake from State Farm]

Longtime MLB columnist for CBS Sports and Bleacher Report among others. Just 62

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/06/scott-miller-passes-away.html

 

[Amy]

Craig called Scott his best friend. Scott helped me get through the days and years after Craig's death. He would call me on the anniversary of Craig's death. He would stop to see me while traveling between Florida's coasts during spring training. He and Kim were amazing tour guides and hosts when I visited San Diego. He put up with the fact I hated baseball! As kind as Craig was, Scott had him beat. Such a terrible, sad loss.

My heart breaks for Kim and Gretchen.

 

[ChrisLong]

RIP, sir.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

He just published a book.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

He was omnipresent (in the best way) while at CBSSports.com. Seemed to be everywhere at every time. By all accounts, one of the nicest people in a business that needs more nice people. RIP.

 

[ChrisLong]

I didn't know Scott, but I have read two remembrances from guys I respect who spoke about him in glowing terms -- Mark Whicker and Danny Knobler. Danny wrote that he and Scott worked together at CBSSports.com and there was a company rule that they needed live stories on no-hitters. So if there was a no-hit alert around the sixth inning or so -- regardless of game or location -- one of them had to track it and write about it. It was usually Scott, who always told Danny it was OK, he'd do it.

He was omnipresent (in the best way) while at CBSSports.com. Seemed to be everywhere at every time. By all accounts, one of the nicest people in a business that needs more nice people. RIP.

 

[HanSenSE]

 

[mpcincal]

This one hits kind of hard, although I didn't know Scott as well as most of you here.

My interactions with him were limited to a couple years at the start of the '90s when I joined the Daily Aztec at SDSU and he was a writer with the LA Times' San Diego edition. The school paper would rotate a different writer into the football beat so everyone could experience that, and when my turn came, I spent it attending the coaches' meeting and the practices each up until the game at UCLA. I got to embed myself with the local media horde, including a couple guys I would eventually work with at the Union-Tribune, and generally everyone was really cool, despite my nervousness. However, Scott was the guy who I felt really went out of his way to engage with me, asking me about life at SDSU, my past experience, where I wanted to go with this journalism thing, and always eager to offer insight and advice. Mainly, he treated me like a peer, when I didn't feel like I was one yet, and for that I'll always be grateful.

We'd bump into each other at certain events over the next year or so, always good for a pleasant conversation, but eventually went on our own paths and lost touch. However, I was always able to follow him and his work, because in truth I also admired him just because he was darn good writer and reporter, and I'd like to think I got a little better at my work just by reading him.

My condolences to his family and friends. RIP