Alyssa Nakken, who coached first base for San Francisco in April 2022 and made history as the first woman to coach on the field in a major league game, has interviewed for the Giants management position.
Farhan Zaidi, the president of baseball operations, acknowledged Sunday night that Nakken had participated in a first-round interview the previous week. The initial word of Nakken’s job interview came from The Athletic.
Robert, her husband, revealed on social media in August that the coach was due to give birth to their first child, a daughter, on February 9.
Zaidi has stated that he hopes to replace Gabe Kapler, who was fired with three days left in the season, with a new manager by the beginning of the free agency period. With the Giants winning a franchise-record 107 games and narrowly defeating the 106-win Dodgers for the NL West title in 2021 before missing the playoffs the next two seasons, he was 295-248 over three or more seasons.
The Giants went 81-81 in 2022 before finishing 79-83 this year. In every single one of their final eight games, they were limited to two runs or fewer.
Since Kapler hired her in January 2020, Nakken, 33, a softball star at Sacramento State from 2009 to 2012, has been a coach on the Giants staff.
Nakken was a three-time first baseman on the all-conference team at Sacramento State and a four-time Academic All-American. After working as a baseball operations intern with the Giants’ organization in 2014, she later graduated with a master’s degree in sports administration from the University of San Francisco in 2015.