In 1994, he served as a graduate assistant coach with the University of North Florida, and attended the Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau's "scouts' school", where he graduated at the top of his class.[1] He then rejoined the Angels as a scout and minor league coach with affiliates ranging from the Rookie level to Double-A.
Claus became a minor league manager in the Angel farm system in 2002 with the Cedar Rapids Kernels of the Class AMidwest League, where he won a division title and was cited by Baseball America as the Midwest circuit's top managing prospect. However, he was forced to leave the Angels after the 2003 season when he mistakenly sent a private voice mail supporting Donny Rowland, his mentor and the team's soon-to-be-fired scouting director, to everyone in the team's player development department.[3]
In 2007 and 2008, Claus served as one of the MLB Red Sox' two advance scouts (with Dana LeVangie). Claus' and LeVangie's scouting reports were credited with helping Boston win the 2007 American League title and 2007 World Series.[4] Following the 2008 season, which saw Boston fall in Game 7 of the 2008 American League Championship Series, Claus left the professional baseball ranks to become the assistant baseball coach of Jacksonville University of Jacksonville, Florida. After spending the 2009 season in that post, he rejoined Boston as a member of its international scouting group on November 11, 2009, as the club's Latin American scouting coordinator and international cross-checker.[5] In 2017, the Red Sox promoted him to global scouting supervisor.
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