Carter Hawkins (born circa 1984) is an American baseball executive. HisMajor League Baseball career began with theCleveland Indians, as a scout. He becamegeneral manager of theChicago Cubs in October 2021.

Hawkins earned a bachelor's degree in 2007 fromVanderbilt University, where he also played baseball as a catcher.^[1]

In 2008, Hawkins joined theCleveland Indians baseball team as an advance scouting intern.^[2] He took a full-time role as a scout for the organization in 2009.

Hawkins was reported to be the scout that found perennial all star Jose Ramirez. On 7/1/2025, while being interviewed on 670am out of Chicago, Hawkins said that he did not discover Ramirez. Hawkins was named the team's assistant director of player development in 2010 and the director of player development in 2015.^[3] He was named the Indians' assistant general manager in 2016. He was named Sports Illustrated top young up and coming baseball executive in 2015.^[2]

On October 15, 2021, theChicago Cubs hired Hawkins as their general manager.^[4][5]

Hawkins is married to his wife, Lindsay.

• Living people
• Chicago Cubs executives
• Cleveland Indians executives
• Vanderbilt Commodores baseball players
• 1984 births

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use mdy dates from December 2019
• Date of birth not in Wikidata