Competitor bio:

Michael has been a part of the Miami Marlins organization since 2002 and is currently the President of baseball Operations, a position he has held since 2013. He was drafted in 1993 by the Texas Rangers in the 31st round. He made his Minor League debut in 1993 with Class A Short-Season Erie and remained with the club when it relocated to Hudson Valley in 1994. He played two seasons (1993–94) in the Rangers system and one year (1995) in the Reds organization before joining the Tampa Bay Devil Rays front office in 1995. Mike commenced his front office career spending five seasons (1995–1999) as an assistant in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays' scouting and player development departments. In 1999, Baseball America named him as one of 10 people in baseball whose prominence would increase significantly in the first decade of the new century. It quoted strong sources who said he would turn into a successful general manager before the 2010 season. At the age of 32, Hill was named to the "Hot List" by the Black Enterprise magazine in their December 2003 issue, a list that represents the best and brightest African American executives under the age of 40. A 1993 graduate of Harvard University, Michael was elected senior class marshal (the equivalent of class president) while starring as the Crimson football team's top rusher and the baseball team's captain. He was born and raised in Cincinnati, where he played football, baseball and basketball at the city's Country Day School.