Amanda Hopkins

Amanda Hopkins is an American professional baseball scout who worked for the Seattle Mariners. She was the second woman to be a full-time baseball scout after Edith Houghton.

Career Hopkins is the daughter of Ron Hopkins, who served as a baseball scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Texas Rangers, and Oakland Athletics during her childhood. After performing well during a two-week Major League Baseball scouting development program in 2015, Hopkins was hired by Mariners Scouting Director Tom McNamera to be an area scout of high school and college players for the Four Corners region of the United States.

As the first female scout in more than 50 years, she says she occasionally faces surprise from players she is scouting when they discover she's female.

Personal She graduated from Mount Rainier High School in Seattle in 2011.