Elizabeth Benn was on a baseball operations name along with her new colleagues within the Mets’ entrance workplace Tuesday when actuality started to set in.
“Sure, I used to be attempting to grasp it from knowledgeable setting, however I used to be additionally simply nerding out the entire time considering, ‘Wow that is so cool that that is my job,’ ” Benn, the Mets’ new director of main league operations, mentioned Wednesday on SNY. “How they discuss gamers was simply fascinating to me. I discovered loads in that hour-long name simply by attending to pay attention to those guys discuss.”
The Mets on Monday introduced the addition of Benn to their baseball operations workers, making her the division’s highest-ranking feminine within the franchise historical past.
Benn joined the Mets from Main League Baseball, the place she spent the previous 5 years — most lately because the senior coordinator of baseball operations. She mentioned her primary obligations will likely be roster development, administration and transactions whereas working with normal supervisor Billy Eppler, his three assistant GMs (Bryn Alderson, Ian Levin and Ben Zauzmer) and the remainder of the baseball operations workers.
“Along with that, something associated to the main league gamers and workers,” Benn mentioned. “So the main league payroll I will likely be engaged on, contracts of the coaches, efficiency workers, issues associated to clubhouse and journey. So actually something that's concerned with the main league gamers I will likely be engaged on.”
Benn, who was raised as a Yankees fan in Toronto — her mom is from Jersey Metropolis — mentioned she seemed as much as Yankees assistant GM Jean Afterman and Marlins GM Kim Ng (whom she labored with at MLB) as ladies in baseball who got here earlier than her.
“I do know that persons are trying as much as me and watching what I do, so I need to do the very best job attainable,” Benn mentioned. “That’s not essentially due to my gender or the truth that I’m the primary on this function with the Mets, nevertheless it’s simply the best way that I typically wish to work.
Now, Benn — a former pitcher who turned the primary girl to play within the New York Metropolis Metro Baseball League — will likely be blazing her personal path as a member of the Mets’ entrance workplace.
“I used to be considering for some time that I'd take into account sooner or later transferring to a membership from the commissioner’s workplace,” Benn mentioned. “I didn’t assume that will occur but, however this chance offered itself and actually, each single field was checked that I'd need going to a membership. Chatting with Billy Eppler initially, I couldn’t think about a greater GM to work below and his management is unimaginable. It’s simply been a extremely nice workforce and entrance workplace to come back into proper now. So I’m completely thrilled to be coming into this.”
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