Thrilled to be back in baseball after spending two months on the global strategy team at Google, Katie Krall didn’t realize that her new job with the Red Sox was in some ways historic.
A year ago, the Red Sox hired Bianca Smith as a Minor League coach. One year later, by hiring Krall as a player development coach at Double-A Portland, the Red Sox became the first MLB organization to have two female coaches.
“[Director of player development Brian Abraham] and I were even saying we didn’t connect the dots that this was going to be historic until we saw Alex’s tweet,†Krall said. “Obviously, he knew that I was a woman and that I was being hired in a coaching capacity, but we didn’t realize it would be the first time in professional baseball that there would be two female coaches on a staff. So that’s been phenomenal.â€
The hiring of Krall by the Red Sox is the continuation of an encouraging trend in baseball of women receiving opportunities that were unprecedented not long…
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