Billy Eppler’s first entrance workplace rent as Mets common supervisor is a historic one.
The group is hiring Elizabeth Benn as its director of main league operations, The Publish’s Mike Puma confirmed.
Whereas the Mets produce other ladies working in baseball operations, Benn turns into the division’s highest rating feminine in membership historical past.
Benn has spent the previous four-plus years working at Main League Baseball, beginning as a youth applications and labor relations intern and dealing her technique to her most up-to-date place as a senior coordinator of baseball operations, which she’d held since February 2020, in accordance with her LinkedIn web page. Benn additionally labored as coordinator of labor relations, variety & inclusion, and baseball growth with MLB.
The Toronto native, who owns a grasp’s diploma in philosophy from Columbia College and has been an adjunct lecturer at Lehman Faculty since 2016, additionally frolicked as a baseball teacher with the Blue Jays in 2015.
Benn is a pitcher herself, having performed in a ladies’s league in Canada and, since 2016, the newbie New York Metropolis Metro Baseball League the place she was the primary lady to play in that league. Benn additionally performed first base for the softball group on the College of Toronto, the place she earned her bachelor’s in philosophy. She additionally was a training assistant for highschool and center college baseball and softball groups at DREAM, formally the Harlem RBI program.
Eppler was employed as Mets GM in November and the group’s assistant common managers Bryn Alderson, Ian Levin and Ben Zauzmer had been all promoted from inside. Zauzmer was bumped up after Eppler’s arrival. Benn might operate as one other assistant common supervisor with the duties of her position operating the gamut from roster and payroll to guidelines and compliance.
She is the second notable lady employed by the Mets this offseason. Gretchen Aucoin, in a minor league position, was introduced in as the primary on-field feminine coach in franchise historical past. The Mets, earlier than selecting Eppler, additionally requested in interviews with Crimson Sox assistant GM Raquel Ferreira and had been fascinating in speaking to Yankees assistant GM Jean Afterman.
Benn can also be a part of a rising variety of ladies rising to distinguished roles in baseball. Kim Ng of the Marlins turn out to be the primary feminine GM in MLB historical past in 2020.
The Giants’ Alyssa Nakken turned the primary full-time ladies’s coach in MLB historical past in 2020 and this season the Yankees’ Rachel Balkovec will turned the primary feminine to handle an MLB-affiliated minor league group.
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