Kim Ng reportedly leaving Dodgers to join Joe Torre's MLB staff
Kim Ng, the Dodgers' vice president and assistant general manager, is reportedly leaving the team to become senior vice president of baseball operations for Major League Baseball.
The New York Daily News' Bill Madden said Ng’s hiring is part of a major restructuring of MLB’s operations department under new vice president Joe Torre, the ex-Dodgers manager.
Dodgers.com’s Ken Gurnick reported Ng would join Torre as his senior VP.
Madden said three senior MLB officials have been fired and Joe Garagiola Jr., while maintaining his senior VP title, would accept a demotion from a supervisory role to a ``dean of discipline’’ position.
Ng was entering her 10th season with the Dodgers, and was the first woman to interview for a general manager’s position in 2005 when the Dodgers hired Ned Colletti. Three years later she also interviewed for the GM job with the Seattle Mariners.
Ng, 42, previously was the vice president and assistant GM for the Yankees, where she also worked with Torre. She began her career in baseball as a special projects analyst for the Chicago White Sox.
Madden reported that the three fired officials included former Angels GM Mike Port, who had been the VP of umpiring, long-time VP of administration Ed Burns and senior specialist of on-field operations Darryl Hamilton.
One source likened the house cleaning to a "blood bath."
Madden said Torre’s other new hire was Peter Woodfork, the former Diamondbacks assistant GM, who will serve as Torre’s point man. Torre plans to continue to live in Los Angeles and not at MLB’s headquarters in New York.
Torre was just hired by MLB on Feb. 26, but Madden said the changes were already in place and that Ng "was eager to flee what has become a Dodger cuckoo's nest under battling owners Frank and Jamie McCourt."
-- Steve Dilbeck
Sorry to see her go. I was hoping she'd be GM one day.
Posted by: William Desmond Taylor | 03/08/2011 at 12:37 AM
Kim,
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Nurse Jaime Ratched and Dr. Frank are over medicating us.
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Please take us with you!
Posted by: McMurphy, Cheswick, Martini, Billy Bibbit and Chief | 03/08/2011 at 01:35 AM
Kim Ng is usually portrayed in the media as a widely respected baseball executive contrary to the disgrace and buffoonery found elsewhere in Dodger senior management. She was turned down for the Dodger GM job in favor of Ned Colletti and we'll never know just how much better than Ned she would have been.
Posted by: skyharbor | 03/08/2011 at 01:43 AM
Good for Kim and all the best to her.
Posted by: alanw19 | 03/08/2011 at 03:15 AM
Go, Frank, go, go, go, go!
Posted by: California Sun | 03/08/2011 at 03:24 AM
From one of the most storied franchises in history to a "cuckoo's nest." Thank you Frank and Jamie. Please sell before the value of the franchise decreases even more.
Posted by: Airedale | 03/08/2011 at 04:36 AM
Take the cuckoo's nest comment in context: it was from a NY newspaper columnist, not directly from Ng. The same could be said about the Mets right now.
That said, Ng is a big loss for the Dodgers front office and I wish her well in her new job.
Posted by: neoncactus | 03/08/2011 at 06:58 AM
Damn Joe. Don't you have a position for Ned too?
Posted by: Labeldude | 03/08/2011 at 07:39 AM
Kim Ng leaving is only a start of what is coming. All of our good player will be leaving as soon as they become free agents. MLB PLEASE step in and save us before it is to late. The clock is ticking.
Posted by: Charles Booth | 03/08/2011 at 08:25 AM
Good for her! Sounds like working for the Dodgers under Frank McCourt is a pretty toxic environment.
Posted by: Mike | 03/08/2011 at 08:35 AM
If this is the step up that Kim has been looking for, then more power to her and congratulations. She is certainly well deserving. It's a pity the Dodgers didn't take more advantage of the talent they had within their own organization. Just more grist for the mill.
Posted by: BlueinAZ | 03/08/2011 at 08:37 AM
Any speculation over whether Ng would have been a better GM than Colletti is exactly the kind of false exercise McCourt loves. There is NO GM IN HISTORY who could make this team a winner when ownership is siphoning the profits off for the personal extravagent lifestyle of the family members, not only at the expense of the major league roster but the farm system. In fact, the damage done by the McCourt looting has only begun to be felt. Wait till 5 years from now after years of cutting the budget for scouting and signing amatuers. The Dodgers will look like the Pirates, only with way richer owners.
Posted by: gentiga | 03/08/2011 at 04:11 PM