Mets’ executive Elizabeth Benn hits ground running

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 making an attempt 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, stated Wednesday on SNY. “How they speak about gamers was simply fascinating to me. I realized lots in that hour-long name simply by attending to hear to those guys speak.”

The Mets on Monday introduced the addition of Benn to their baseball operations workers, making her the department’s highest-ranking female in the franchise history.

Benn joined the Mets from Main League Baseball, the place she spent the previous 5 years — most just lately because the senior coordinator of baseball operations. She stated her principal duties can be roster development, administration and transactions whereas working with basic 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 most important league gamers and workers,” Benn stated. “So the most important league payroll I can be engaged on, contracts of the coaches, efficiency workers, issues associated to clubhouse and journey. So actually something that’s concerned with the most important league gamers I can be engaged on.”

Benn, who was raised as a Yankees fan in Toronto — her mom is from Jersey Metropolis — stated she regarded 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 individuals are wanting as much as me and watching what I do, so I wish to do the most effective job potential,” Benn stated. “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 way in which that I usually wish to work.

Now, Benn — a former pitcher who turned the primary lady to play within the New York Metropolis Metro Baseball League — can 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 stated. “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 underneath and his management is unimaginable. It’s simply been a very nice group and entrance workplace to come back into proper now. So I’m completely thrilled to be coming into this.”