Congratulations to Kim Ng, the new GM of the Marlins.
She has extensive background with MLB and the Dodgers.
Best wishes for success.
https://www.mlb.com/news/kim-n...neral-manager-in-mlb
Bob
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@Consultant posted:Congratulations to Kim Ng, the new GM of the Marlins.
She has extensive background with MLB and the Dodgers.
Best wishes for success.
https://www.mlb.com/news/kim-n...neral-manager-in-mlb
Bob
Thank you Derek Jeter for giving a woman the opportunity to be the GM of the Miami Marlins.
TPM
Kim will be an example of the young women and men who begin their baseball career's
as interns and rookies.
Many years ago in South Dakota, I had the opportunity to play in a "barnstorming" tour a 3 game series against the "real" Ladies" League of their own! We switch our catcher and pitcher [future ML players] with the Lady's pitcher and catcher.
"They were very good"!!! Dottie was the LF
We split the gate admissions, between innings, I checked the box office.
Bob
Bob,
It's awesome. I know some that won't welcome the idea, but thats too bad. This is history.
My fav baseball movie, A league of their own!
Thank you. A great experience in Valentine, NE. We rode on fire trucks to promote the game. Be safe!
Bob
Hope she does well, but I think the same thing when it comes to any new GM or manager. She doesn't get any more latitude than any other new GM. Lets see what ownership does to help her.
If a dorky, white, Ivy nerds with tape on their glasses who never got closer to the field than a Strat O Magic game board can be GM, why not a woman? It’s not about gut feeling for the game anymore. It’s about analytics.
The reason there aren’t many female candidates is percentage wise there aren’t many female STEM majors. Both my kids said there weren’t many females in their majors classes.
But it’s getting better. My girlfriend said she was often the only girl in her classes when she got her degrees in aerospace engineering.
Ng actually played college softball. I’ll bet most of the male GM’s didn’t even play intramural softball. She’s been in baseball organizations for thirty years.
@RJM posted:If a dorky, white, Ivy nerds with tape on their glasses who never got closer to the field than a Strat O Magic game board can be GM, why not a woman? It’s not about gut feeling for the game anymore. It’s about analytics.
The reason there aren’t many female candidates is percentage wise there aren’t many female STEM majors. Both my kids said there weren’t many females in their majors classes.
But it’s getting better. My girlfriend said she was often the only girl in her classes when she got her degrees in aerospace engineering.
Ng actually played college softball. I’ll bet most of the male GM’s didn’t even play intramural softball. She’s been in baseball organizations for thirty years.
When they add a picture/quote to "backhanded compliment to Websters, this should be it"
She may be the first, but she won't be the LAST.
Hear that sound? That's the glass ceiling shattering...for little girls everywhere.
Good luck Kim, we now cannot root against the Marlins as much as we used to!
@nycdad posted:When they add a picture/quote to "backhanded compliment to Websters, this should be it"
You would be incredibly wrong. It’s a slap at all the old time cigar chomping clowns who believe to this day all you need is a set of eyes to decide who the top prospects are. It’s a comment on who has taken over in general.
If someone asks what background a woman has in the game ask them what background an Ivy League nerd has in the game. A handful played. Most haven’t.
30 years in the field....sounds imminently qualified to me and if anyone would know a good baseball mind I would think Jeter would. I have one daughter who has front office aspirations and another one who is a science major and representation means a great deal to both of them. I am wishing Ng success just as I’d wish any new hire success...with a little extra thrown in for breaking a barrier and hopefully creating a path for my daughters and granddaughters if they are also skilled, experienced and desirous of a position like that.
Definitely deserves a chance. She isn't fresh from college either but has worked for decades in baseball and was often interviewed for GM jobs.
Still needs to perform of course but the bar in miami is not very high
Still needs to perform of course but the bar in miami is not very high
Wrong.
@TPM posted:Wrong.
What do you mean with wrong?
Miami has been the worst team in baseball the last 10 years so ist can get hardly get worse.
Not just the FO fault of course, most blame goes to loria who probably was one of the worst owners in recent history.
Hopefully it gets better with new owner and FO.
This is another great step forward for professional sports. Now fix the game, I used to watch PBS to help me sleep but watching MLB does it everytime.
@Dominik85 posted:What do you mean with wrong?
Miami has been the worst team in baseball the last 10 years so ist can get hardly get worse.
Not just the FO fault of course, most blame goes to loria who probably was one of the worst owners in recent history.
Hopefully it gets better with new owner and FO.
When new ownership took over the Marlins were in bad shape. Jeter talked about a 5 year turnaround. But 3 years later the team made the post season and Mattingly named NL manager of the year in a very difficult season.
So right now, with this move, a young but very talented team with Mattingly and Jeter's post season experience, the bar has been raised.
@TPM posted:When new ownership took over the Marlins were in bad shape. Jeter talked about a 5 year turnaround. But 3 years later the team made the post season and Mattingly named NL manager of the year in a very difficult season.
So right now, with this move, a young but very talented team with Mattingly and Jeter's post season experience, the bar has been raised.
Any team that over performed or under performed in a short season could be seen as an aberration. The Marlins only had one way to go. I would want to see success over a 162 game season before being convinced. One win streak or one loss streak skews the season. If I remember the Marlins started 7-1. Without this win streak start they couldn’t repeat all season they would have been 24-28. This extrapolates out to 75-87.
The average age of their everyday lineup is 30. The average age of the bullpen is 33. They have potentially good starters where none have had a successful complete season. It hard to tell how well arms will hold up over 162 games versus 60. Only one exceeded 50 innings. Only two exceeded 40.
I will agree on the shortened season, but they made the shortened post season with 64 roster changes, so here in South Florida the bar has been raised.
I think both is true. They did get lucky and they currently have kind of a stopgap team but they also have an improved farm system and some young guys and could be better in 1-2 years if the prospects pan out.
No guarantee of course if the owner and front office doesn't work as the old group managed to fail with stanton, realmuto, yelich, ozuna and fernandez which is a pretty tough thing to do.
The problem was Loria was the owner but he didn't let people do their jobs. He spent money he didnt have on players, he and everyone knew Jose Fernandez was a drug user. Then he gets in with MLB and does a deal with Miami and taxpayers paid for the stadium because he wanted to build a stadium where no one wanted to go. Still dont but will if they win.
Anything will be an improvement.
Jeter knew her from when she was an asst GM with the Yankees in the late 90's.
@TPM posted:The problem was Loria was the owner but he didn't let people do their jobs. He spent money he didnt have on players, he and everyone knew Jose Fernandez was a drug user. Then he gets in with MLB and does a deal with Miami and taxpayers paid for the stadium because he wanted to build a stadium where no one wanted to go. Still dont but will if they win.
Anything will be an improvement.
Definitely made good money with the marlins, including paying off his depts on the club.
@Dominik85 posted:Definitely made good money with the marlins, including paying off his depts on the club.
Yea the Loria ERA is over. Current situation in South Florida, Dolphins and Tua!
TPM:
this news article appeared on MLB.
You will have the opportunity to observe her success.
It would be interesting to listen to a phone conversations regarding trades with other GM's. and her 1st meeting with Scott Boros.
"I remember my meeting with Mr. Boros asking for a donation for Goodwill Series.
Best wishes:
Bob
@Consultant, you can't leave us in suspense!! Did he donate or not? Your reputation is riding on the answer.
@PTWood posted:@Consultant, you can't leave us in suspense!! Did he donate or not? Your reputation is riding on the answer.
Although I have a good guess, I would like to know the answer to that too.
PT:
No he did not!
His #1 Associate was one of our former players.
During one of our Area Code games his #1 wanted me to pitch a Korean "Free Agent" in a game.
Over 300 pro scouts attend the games.
$5,000 to pitch one inning was my message to Mr. Boros.
Of course he declined. The #1 Associate placed the pitcher in a bullpen at Blair Field in Long Beach and sent a message thru the scout "grapevine" regarding the 10 minute tryout.
Bob