Post-playing Career
After retirement, Newhouser worked as a scout for the Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, and the Detroit Tigers. While with the Astros, Newhouser was credited with discovering Derek Jeter, whom the Astros passed over for Phil Nevin. After the Astros passed on Jeter, he quit his job with the Astros in protest after they ignored his drafting advice.
Newhouser discovered, as a scout with the Orioles, a Detroit high schooler named Milt Pappas, who went on to win 209 games in his career — two more than Newhouser did, and Dean Chance who also had a long baseball career, including winning the Cy Young Award for the Los Angeles Angels.
The Detroit Tigers retired Newhouser's number 16 in 1997, and he died one year later.
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