New York Mets: Jessica Mendoza is an exciting yet interesting hire

The New York Mets made an a splash by hiring Jessica Mendoza to an advisory position. It’s exciting but still is a curious choice to make.

It’s a new day for the New York Mets. At least with the front office, they have gone into the business of making splashes. Hiring Brodie Van Wagenen, an agent, to be the general manager showed at least a hint of a new attitude.

Recently, John Franco and Al Leiter have been added to the front office staff in an effort to have well-liked alumni around the team. They will act as baseball operations advisors.

Yesterday the Mets made a big splash, hiring Jessica Mendoza, also as a baseball operations advisor. Mendoza is the former Olympic softball player that currently works in the Sunday Night Baseball booth for ESPN during the season.

According to the team, Mendoza will continue in that role while assisting the Mets in a smaller scale position.

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According to the team article, Mendoza will spend most of her time focusing on technological advancement and health and performance, with focus to a lesser degree on player performance and roster construction.

First of all, congratulations to Jessica Mendoza. To see a woman crack into a male-dominated industry is exciting.

It’s not as if she comes without knowledge. Her experience as a player gives her great insight and she has knowledge of the league working with ESPN.

She has actually become a terrific broadcaster. I am typically a tough judge, but Mendoza has fallen into her role quite nicely and rounds out the team at ESPN well.

But with all of that said, is Mendoza the right person for her job? It is worth discussing.

There is good reason to be excited when a woman gets a job like this. On the other hand, a woman shouldn’t be hired just for the sake of hiring a woman.

What in Mendoza’s resume qualifies her to advise on technology and health and performance? As a player and a broadcaster, where is the experience?

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The move would make more sense to me if she had experience, somewhere, as an athletic trainer. If she had some work with advancing some sort of sports technology, I would see more logic here.

Once again, congratulations. Mendoza works hard and deserves what she gets. Yes, the role isn’t going to be huge. It just begs the question of whether or not her role will actually do anything.

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