Frank Wren

Who is Frank Wren?

Franklin E. Wren is an American front office executive in Major League Baseball. Since the end of the 2007 baseball season, he has been the general manager of the Atlanta Braves.

Wren attended St. Petersburg Junior College and signed with the Montreal Expos as an outfielder in 1977. In five minor league seasons, he batted .259 and peaked with a 38-game trial with the Double-A Memphis Chicks in 1980. He accepted a job coaching in the Expos organization in 1981 while recovering from surgery to remove a brain tumor and later after trying to resume his playing career in the spring of 1982, became a full time coach that June with the Jamestown Expos. He joined the Montreal front office as the General Manager of the Jamestown Expos in October of 1984 and was promoted to Assistant Director of Scouting in September of 1985. He added additional responsibilities of Director of Latin American Scouting in 1987.