Kim Ng, MLB’s 1st feminine GM, is leaving the Miami Marlins after making the playoffs in third season

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The Marlins exercised their group possibility for her to return for the 2024 season, principal proprietor Bruce Sherman stated in an announcement, however Ng declined her mutual possibility.

Miami Marlins General Manager Kim Ng speaks with the news media.
Miami Marlins Basic Supervisor Kim Ng speaks with the information media. AP Picture/Lynne Sladky, File

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MIAMI (AP) — Kim Ng is leaving the Miami Marlins after three seasons as basic supervisor, Marlins chairman and principal proprietor Bruce Sherman introduced Monday.

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Ng, 54, turned the majors’ highest-ranking lady in baseball operations and the primary feminine GM within the 4 main North American skilled sports activities leagues in a groundbreaking rent in November 2020.

The Marlins exercised their group possibility for her to return for the 2024 season, Sherman stated in an announcement, however Ng declined her mutual possibility.

“We thank Kim for her contributions throughout her time with our group and want her and her household effectively,” Sherman stated.

Ng was the fifth GM within the Marlins’ historical past. Sherman stated the membership will instantly start its seek for new management.

Ng introduced in Marlins coach Skip Schumaker forward of the 2023 season, and he led Miami to its first postseason berth because the pandemic-shortened 2020 marketing campaign. They misplaced to the Philadelphia Phillies within the Wild Card Collection. The final full season wherein the Marlins made the playoffs was in 2003, after they gained the World Collection.