Eight months ago, Kim Ng became the first female General Manager in MLB history. Today, as we’re approaching the MLB All-Star break, she’s on the verge of making one of her biggest decisions to date: whether or not to extend pending free agent Starling Marté.
According to the Miami Herald on Monday, the negotiations finally began to progress when the Marlins’ front office “presented a multi-year contract extension offer to Marté.” Financial terms are still unknown (the original published version of the article said the terms were three years and $30 million, but that was quickly changed).