A wayward Midwesterner transplanted dangerously close to several In-N-Out burger locations in Southern California, Scott Miller has covered baseball for a variety of publications during the past 13 years before becoming the national baseball writer for CBS SportsLine.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, San Diego edition. 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.

Miller is a past chairman of the Twin Cities' chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, and he also served on the BBWAA's national board of directors in 1998. In addition, he has won several writing awards, including two national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for event coverage in 1996 and 1997, as well as Society of Professional Journalists' writing awards in both Minnesota and in Southern California.

He now lives in Southern California with his wife, Kim, also a writer, and daughter, Gretchen.