Report: Elizabeth Benn Becomes Mets' Highest-Ranking Female Baseball Ops Member Ever

According to Anthony DiComo of MLB.com, the New York Mets have hired Elizabeth Benn to be their director of major league operations, making her the highest-ranked female executive in franchise history.

Benn worked in the league office.

She worked her way up to a senior coordinating of baseball operations position with Major League Baseball after working at the league office.

Benn told Rustin Dodd of The Athletic that she never considered working in baseball when she was younger. People are on the field. We don't see the people in the front office or the commissioner's office.

Gretchen Aucoin is the first female coach in New York's history.

While there have been strides toward having more female representation across baseball in coaching and executive positions, stories like Benn's remain more of the exception than the rule.

In November 2020, Kim Ng was named the general manager of the Miami Marlins, making her the first woman to hold the position in MLB history or in the history of the four major sporting leagues in the United States.

The idea that it has affected so many people is extraordinary.

The number of women in baseball operations roles went from 106 in 2016 to225 in 2020. The number of baseball operations jobs went up from 4,442 to 4,951, but only 28.6% of those jobs went to women.

A female baseball operations employee for a National League team told Lee that Kim's hiring was progress, but there was a lot of work to be done.