Dick Groch, the scout who signed Derek Jeter to the Yankees before a long tenure with the Brewers as a high-ranking evaluator, passed away on Wednesday in Port Huron, Mich., his family said. He was 84.

Giants general manager Zack Minasian, Brewers assistant GM Karl Mueller and Angels pro scouting director Derek Watson are among the Major League officials who learned player evaluation under the tutelage of Groch in Milwaukee, where he was a longtime lieutenant to GM Doug Melvin and helped transform the Brewers from a cellar-dweller to a perennial contender by the time he began to transition into retirement in the late 2010s and early 2020s.

But Groch will forever be remembered as the many who convinced the Yankees to take a chance on Jeter in 1992 . Groch had been tracking the standout

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