Major League Baseball Press Release
SEWARD, Neb. – Concordia University Nebraska alum Terry Wetzel was honored in March by Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals. The Royals named Wetzel the 2022 recipient of the Art Stewart Award, which recognizes the organization’s most outstanding scout. Wetzel was announced as the award winner on March 6 and was then formally recognized prior to a Royals game at Kauffman Stadium on April 3.
Wetzel is in his second season with the Royals after re-joining the organization in October 2021 as a Major League/Special Assignment Scout. Prior to that, he spent six years as a Special Assistant to the President of Baseball Operations and General Manager with the Washington Nationals, including their 2019 World Series-winning season. During his 39-year scouting career, Wetzel has been honored with several awards, including the 1993 Kansas City Royals Ewing M. Kauffman Scout of the Year Award, the 2000 TOPPS Scout of the Year Award, and the 2003 Colorado Rockies Pat Daugherty Scout of the Year Award.
Wetzel made his way back to the Concordia campus in 2015 when he was honored as a member of Bulldog swimming teams (1977-78 / 1978-79) that were inducted into the Concordia Athletic Hall of Fame. Wetzel served as a team captain for the conference championship swim teams of ’78 and ’79. Wetzel earned degrees from Concordia in Mathematics and Computer Science.
This feature article from 2018 explains how Wetzel got into professional baseball following his collegiate swimming career with the Bulldogs: https://www.cune.edu/athletics/teams/baseball/news/concordia-swim-captain-makes-mark-major-league-baseball. Formerly a Lutheran teacher and coach in Houston, Texas, Wetzel became a full-time scout with the Royals in 1985.