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MINNEAPOLIS For Eric Kubota, there was a tangible sense of relief when he saw that Kim Ng had been hired by the Miami Marlins to be their new general manager in November.
Kubota, the director of scouting for the A s, laughs as he describes himself as an old-school baseball dinosaur who has somehow been in baseball longer than Ng herself, who first entered the world of the front office as a White Sox intern in 1990 and finally completed a climb to the top of the baseball operations hill three decades later. Ng s promotion capped a slow but sure rise that took her through three organizations and two league offices before her ascent to the peak.