Jeter hires another Yankees executive

The Miami Marlins have made another noteworthy front-office hire, sources said Friday, and you’ll never guess which team he used to work for: the Yankees.

Dan Greenlee joins the Marlins as director of player personnel, a role in which he won’t be a household name but will be a significant voice in player acquisitions, 40-man roster decisions and the like.

He is, to a degree, a replacement for Jeff McAvoy — the Marlins’ vice president of player personnel until he was fired by the new ownership group in September — but with tierdown job title.

With the Yankees, Greenlee was a Tampa-based player development analyst, working under Gary Denbo — now the Marlins’ vice president of player development and scouting, then the Yankees’ VP of player development. Yankees legend/Marlins CEO Derek Jeter has a long history with Denbo.

Greenlee has an interesting non-baseball background. He studied journalism at Ohio University, according to his LinkedIn page, and received a law degree from the University of Minnesota in 2011 (not uncommon in major league front offices).

He also worked for MLex Market Insight, a media organization that provides “exclusive market insight, analysis and commentary on regulatory risk,” according to its website. Greenlee’s LinkedIn says he was a merger analyst, assessing antitrust risk for proposed mergers.

That analyst theme continued as Greenlee moved into baseball, joining the Yankees in 2013.