the mets of New York they hired Elizabeth Benn as its director of operations for Liolder gasmaking her the highest-ranking woman in sports operations in franchise history, according to a person familiar with the hiring.
The person confirmed the hiring of Benn a The Associated Press on Sunday on condition of anonymity because the Mets They haven’t announced it yet.
Benn has worked for Big leagues since completing a postgraduate degree in Philosophy on the Columbia University in 2017. She has held league positions in the areas of youth programs, labor relations and sports operations.
Several are the women who occupy prominent positions in the directives of several teams in a sport dominated by men, among them the manager general of the Miami MarlinsKim Ng.
The Yankees have had two women in the position of assistant general manager: Ng and Jean Afterman.
The Mets are making changes to their front office for the second consecutive offseason, a series of adjustments that included the brief period of Jared Porter as his general manager after the 2020 campaign. Porter was fired over sexually oriented text messages he sent to a female reporter in 2016 when he was working with the puppies from Chicago.
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