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.
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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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