Miami Marlins promote Caroline O'Connor, making her pro baseball's second-highest ranking woman

The Miami Marlins volition beryllium led by 2 of the highest-ranking women successful nonrecreational sports.

The enactment announced connected Monday that proprietor Bruce Sherman is promoting Caroline O'Connor to president of concern operations, effectual immediately.

The determination makes the Marlins the archetypal pro sports squad to person women operating the entirety of the team's day-to-day business. In 2020, the squad hired Kim Ng arsenic the archetypal pistillate wide manager successful Major League Baseball history, making her the league's highest-ranking pistillate successful shot operations.

The Marlins person a past of divers hires. In 2017, the squad hired Derek Jeter to go baseball's archetypal achromatic CEO.

O'Connor has been with the Marlins for six years. She began arsenic elder vice president and main of staff, earlier becoming main operating serviceman successful 2019.

"Her enactment volition proceed to usher the Marlins enactment toward our extremity of sustained occurrence portion strategizing further caller ventures to turn our concern and heighten our marque recognition," Sherman said.

In her caller role, the Marlins said, she volition beryllium charged with overseeing each of the club's concern operations, including sales, marketing, quality resources and diversity, finance, legal, communications, assemblage outreach, information and ballpark facilities.

"We person made ample strides successful increasing our instrumentality base, expanding our concern partnerships, and creating relationships with our assemblage leaders, and we person a large woody of accidental successful beforehand of us," O'Connor said. "I look guardant to moving with the squad to proceed to physique connected that occurrence and thrust further engagement with Marlins shot portion establishing loanDepot parkland arsenic a apical amusement destination successful South Florida."

The Marlins were MLB Wild Card Champions successful 2020 but person failed to marque the playoffs the past 2 seasons.