SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners have hired Catie Griggs as the club's new president of business operations.
Griggs joins the Mariners after spending the past four seasons as the chief business officer for the Atlanta United of Major League Soccer.
She will oversee all aspects of the Mariners organization outside of baseball operations.
Griggs will replace Kevin Mather, who resigned in February after video surfaced of him making derogatory remarks about some players and club operations.
Mather took insensitive shots at a former All-Star from Japan and a top prospect from the Dominican Republic for their English skills, and admitted the team possibly manipulated service time for some of its young players.
