Day 19 Kim Ng case study information collection 1-4

Today’s main task was to do some research for Kim Ng, the new general manager of the Miami Marlins. Before I starting the project, I thought Kim Ng was a male because the position of this person was executive in Major League Baseball and MLB seemed like a playground only for old boys. In 2018, MLB earned a gender grade of C on the yearly report card issued by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. Essentially, that means 30 percent of employees in pro-baseball are women. But MLB told KCUR that all across the league just 188 women work in baseball operations roles, doing things like looking for the best talent, negotiating contracts, or scouring data to optimize player skills. That encompasses jobs in the commissioner’s office plus all 30 teams and those teams’ minor league systems. In 150 years of Major League Baseball, no woman has been a general manager or a manager. The MLB Central Office’s professional staff is comprised of 33.3 percent people of color, and 37.3 percent of the directors and managers were people of color. However, the representation of people of color at the senior executive level dropped from 24.6 percent at the end of 2017 to 23.2 percent at the end of 2018.MLB Central Office has the lowest gender grade among its counterparts in the NFL, NBA, WNBA, and MLS. The professional staff is comprised of only 30.8 percent women, down from 31.8 percent in 2017. Women in director and managerial positions also declined from 33.6 percent in 2017 to 30.1 percent in 2018. Improvement was evident with the increase of women in senior executive-level positions from 24.6 percent in 2017 to 26.8 percent in 2018. MLB will need to build a broad and sustainable pipeline to continue improving these numbers. When I opened Kim Ng’s news reports, I was so excited that Kim Ng was the highest-ranking female baseball executive in the Big Four Leagues in North America and the first person of East Asia descent to serve as general manager of an MLB team.