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As a regular baseball news follower, I saw this former pitcher turned assistant GM, Bill Singer incident on th e news but didn’t mention anything there at my blog. But MLB.com had this article, Incident unfortunate, unacceptable by John Schlegel that explained who Kim Ng is much better than any coverages I’ve seen. And wow, her experience is very impressive. To quote some, “She was named the 38th most influential minority in sports by Sports Illustrated and the only current high-ranking baseball official of Asian descent and one of only three women in her position as assistant GM”. Sometimes I forget that baseball is run by bunch of white male, I guess, as in any big businesses…
Excerpts from John Schlegel’s piece:
… baseball, like the rest of society, still has some work to do before stupid things stop coming out of people’s mouths.
You don’t have to tell that to Kim Ng, the assistant general manager of the Dodgers.
It likely didn’t take last week’s strange and inappropriate comments toward Ng by a Mets employee to convince the 34-year-old veteran of more than 14 years in baseball front offices that we’re still not totally beyond racial and cultural bias.
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Strangely, Singer had approached Ng as though he didn’t know her. Truth is, anybody who doesn’t know who she is probably doesn’t belong at the annual GM meetings in the first place.
She has worked her way up from an internship with the Chicago White Sox in 1990, elevating herself to assistant GM of the Yankees in 1998, at 29. After four years with the Yankees, she joined the Dodgers in 2002. Last May, she was named the 38th most influential minority in sports by Sports Illustrated, among many such accolades she has received. Ng’s job description ranges from negotiating, evaluating and executing trades and arbitration cases to roster maintenance and contract talks. As GM Dan Evans’ top assistant, she has her fingerprints all over what the Dodgers do as a baseball team.
As the only current high-ranking baseball official of Asian descent and one of only three women in her position as assistant general manager, Ng has reached that status purely on merit.
Frankly, it was impossible not to notice her at the GM meetings, simply because there wasn’t anyone else who looked like her coming out of the Grand Ballroom after discussion sessions. And the bottom line is, as always, she carried herself like any other executive and did her job in discussion groups and negotiating sessions like any of the other dozens of baseball decision-makers on hand, so in that sense she blended right in. Ultimately, that’s the only measure of Ng that should be used — not her gender, race or any physical characteristics — in any on-the-job setting. …
