San Francisco Giants coach Alyssa Nakken has interviewed for the team’s open managerial job, becoming the first woman to speak with an organization formally about leading its on-field operations, sources confirmed to ESPN on Sunday.
Nakken, 33, was the first female full-time coach in Major League Baseball when she was hired in January 2020 by Gabe Kapler, who the Giants fired in September. As a major league assistant coach, she has worked with players for the last four seasons, and in April 2022 she filled in as first-base coach for a game following an ejection.
Along with Nakken, the Giants have interviewed a pair of incumbents — bench coach Kai Correa and third-base coach Mark Hallberg — and will not limit themselves to internal options as they look to replace Kapler. The Giants fired him with three games remaining in a disappointing season that ended with a 79-83 record and fourth-place finish in the National League West.
Nakken’s ascent to the major league staff with the Giants, where she started in 2014 as a baseball operations intern, has coincided with more women joining minor league staffs — a dozen-plus in…
