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Luchy Guerra, a native-born Dominican, has 15 years’ experience working with the Los Angeles Dodgers as their assistant director of international player development. She has been honored by Major League Baseball as the 2003 Rawlings Woman Executive of the Year, and by the Los Angeles Business Journal twice, as a nominee for the “Rising Star” award.
Luchy has a master's degree in business management and was responsible for the immigration and assimilation of the Dodgers’ international ballplayers from 1992 to 2008. Over the years she has forged strong relationships with ballplayers, solving their off-the-field problems, and handling their immigration and naturalization paperwork. She has formed an international network of contacts in international embassies and consulates, with all 30 major league teams, with the Commissioner’s Office in New York and with players and coaches throughout professional baseball.
She is highly regarded for her professionalism, integrity, strong relational skills and resourcefulness in solving problems. Luchy is loved and admired by all those she has served over the years, and maintains strong friendships with players and former players. Being a Dominican immigrant herself (1984), she has personal knowledge of the struggles that ballplayers experience in adjusting to American culture and the loneliness and homesickness many of them experience.
Luchy has been featured on Vista L.A., a news program for the Los Angeles Latin community, and her work has been prominently highlighted in the Los Angeles Times and other prominent newspapers.
Artie Harris' career covers virtually all facets and levels of baseball. For the past 30 years he has been an area scout and the draft coordinator for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Included among his responsibilities is the preparation of the annual major league draft of high school and college players. In addition, he managed a scout team during the off-season for the organization for many years. He was the manager of the Dodger sponsored teams that participated in the Area Code Garnes and International Goodwill Series (with Japan, Korea and Australia). He was the director of the Dodger Elite Team series made up of the top high school prospects in California and the western United States. Additionally, he was the administrator of the College Scholarship Plan for players signed by the Dodgers.
He has been active on the international baseball scene for many years. He was the Baseball Sites Director during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. He served as the Local Sports Coordinator for Baseball for the 1991 Olympic Festival. He serves on the Board of Directors of the United States Baseball Federation — the governing body for amateur baseball in this country. He is also an active member of the Advisory Board of the Reviving Baseball in Inner cities (RBI) program.
Artie was a high school head coach for 11 years, winning nine league titles and a Los Angeles City Championship at Venice High School. In that time, his overall record was 222-57 (a winning percentage of .796). He initiated and coached the West Los Angeles College program for ten years, compiling a 274-139 (.663) slate. Teams under his direction were typically characterized as "poised, aggressive and extremely well-schooled in the fundamentals." He has been a recipient of Coach of the Year honors at the local, state and national level on several occasions. He is a member of the Southern California Hall of Fame and in 1994 he was inducted into the California Community College Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.
In 2012, Artie played himself (Scout Artie) in the Academy Award–nominated movie Moneyball with Brad Pitt. The bestselling book written by Michael Lewis, and subsequently the movie, accelerated the use of analytics in major league baseball.
During his coaching career more than 100 of his players were chosen in the professional draft. This group included ten future major leaguers. An equal number went on to play baseball while completing their education at the college level.