Is it for the free publicity or do the Giants truly believe that ex softball player Alyssa Nakken is the right person for the job?
I'll be honest, I have never heard of Nakken nor to i particularly care for baseball in general (unless I am there watching, that is fun.) However, it is difficult to look at this situation and not feel as though the San Francisco Giants are doing this to stir up some unnecessary controversy to improve ticket sales.
I mean look, it is working. Nobody really talks about the Giants during the baseball season, let alone in the off-season yet here we are... this story is everywhere.
Adding fuel to the fire is ex Giants player Aubrey Huff chimed in with a few tweets that will almost certainly get him in trouble as he, in a later tweet, said "This has #metoo and #BelieveAllWomen written all over it"
To be fair to Alyssa Nakken, she was 3-time all-conference softball player, was an intern with the Giants' club, and has a masters degree in Sports Management. Does this mean that she will be good at her job? I have no idea. But it is difficult to ignore the immediate attention that the Giants, who had a losing season at .475 last year and finished nearly 30 games back, are getting from this.
San Francisco is also an extremely liberal city, so hiring a female coach might, at least financially speaking in terms of ticket sales, be a good move.