Thank you for supporting the Independence Center and the Dancing with the St. Louis Stars 2024. My professional dance partner Liz Schwarzkopf and I promise to put on an epic performance the night of the competition - January 20, 2024. Vote for us - as many times as you wish - each vote is only $10. Vote now or any time prior or during the event on January 20, 2024. All donations are tax-deductible.
All proceeds go to benefit the Independence Center which helps individuals in our community thrive while living with serious and persistent mental illness.
Get to know Matt Slater:
Matt Slater joined the Cardinals in 2007 and was promoted to Special Assistant to the General Manager, Player Procurement in December 2017 after previously serving as the club’s Director of Player Personnel for seven seasons.
He is in his 32nd year in Major League Baseball where over the course of his career, he has helped build division winners and playoff teams in Baltimore, Los Angeles and St. Louis. In his current role as senior talent evaluator, Slater works hand in hand with the President and General Manager in all player acquisitions including Major League, minor league, amateur draft and international talent. Furthermore, he aids in contract negotiations and roster composition. For 18 years, Matt served as a consultant to the Orix Buffaloes Baseball Club of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league – winners of the 2022 Japan Series. In addition, Slater continues to push the Cardinal organization forward in the emerging player procurement markets of Asia and Cuba. Slater is known in the industry as a talent hawk and is one of only seven people to have won a World Series championship and a Japan Series championship.
Prior to joining the Cardinals, Slater served in various management capacities for the Los Angeles Dodgers for nine years, including Director of Scouting Operations, Director of Baseball Operations and Director of Professional Scouting. With the Dodgers, he oversaw scouting operations while also being involved with contract negotiations, arbitration and roster management. He worked with the Baltimore Orioles from 1995-98 as the Administrator of Scouting. Slater got his start in professional baseball with the Milwaukee Brewers when he was 19 years old. Beginning in 1991, he served as the Brewers’ Scouting and Player Development Assistant.
A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Slater graduated from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1993, with a degree in Business Administration – Organizational Management, and holds a law degree from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, Calif. He serves on the board of directors for Major League Baseball’s BAT – the Baseball Assistance Team and for Independence Center, a non-profit mental health facility in St. Louis. He resides in Chesterfield, Mo., with his wife, Thomasine, and their three children, Brandon (23), Madison (20) and Jacob (20).