A wayward Midwesterner transplanted dangerously close to several In-N-Out burger locations in Southern California, Scott Miller covered baseball for a variety of publications for many years before becoming a national baseball writer for CBSSports.com in October 1999.

A native of Monroe, Mich., Miller graduated from Hillsdale (Mich.) College in 1985 and soon thereafter began covering sports for the Los Angeles Times. After covering the San Diego Padres and the then-California Angels, Miller returned to the Midwest as the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press beat man covering the Minnesota Twins from 1994-1999. There, he chronicled six consecutive losing seasons, listening to tales of the Twins' glory days of 1987 and 1991 all the while. Then, after he left, the Twins started winning again. Hmmm. ...

Miller currently serves on the national Board of Directors for the Baseball Writers' Assn. of America, and is a past chairman of the Twin Cities' chapter of the BBWAA. He has won several national and state writing awards. However, if you spend much time trolling the chat rooms at the bottom of his columns, you'll see that the awards and $3 will buy a cup of coffee and dozens of rudely dissenting opinions from some of the most brilliant minds reading the Internet (and yes, we're still appreciative that those minds continue to flock to CBSSports.com).

When not at the ballpark, Miller enjoys music (boy, does he wish he could play the guitar), running, biking, cheeseburgers, the combination of pizza and a televised game at home, seeing how many Bruce Springsteen concerts he can attend, his wife's jambalaya and playing dominoes with his daughter. He lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, two cats and a dog he sure wishes he could turn into a cash cow like Marley.