{"id":410478,"date":"2022-02-28T01:41:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mets-hiring-elizabeth-benn-in-historic-front-office-move\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T01:41:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T22:41:46","slug":"mets-hiring-elizabeth-benn-in-historic-front-office-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mets-hiring-elizabeth-benn-in-historic-front-office-move\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mets hiring Elizabeth Benn in historic front office move"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Billy Eppler\u2019s first front office hire as Mets general<\/a> manager is a historic one.<\/p>\n

The team is hiring Elizabeth Benn as its director of major league operations, according to multiple reports. It makes her the highest ranking female baseball operations employee in club history.<\/p>\n

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Benn has spent the past four-plus years working at Major League Baseball, starting as a youth programs and labor relations intern and working her way to her most recent position as a senior coordinator of baseball operations, according to her LinkedIn page.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The one thing that can get me out of bed at 7am on my last day off: grind time! So excited to start proper pre-season workouts for the first time since my surgery. pic.twitter.com\/s33tfjE9GT<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Elizabeth Benn (@elizabenn) January 2, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Canadian, who owns a Masters degree in philosophy from Columbia and was an adjunct lecturer at Lehman College, also spent time as a baseball instructor with the Blue Jays in 2015. Benn is a pitcher herself, playing in the amateur New York City Metro Baseball League on the weekends from 2016-18.<\/p>\n

Eppler was hired as Mets GM in November.\n <\/p><\/div>\n