Oakland A’s Hire First Female Evaluator
Dec 13, 2017, 12:00 AM | Updated: Jan 4, 2019, 11:22 am
(Photo by Noah Graham/Getty Images)
(Photo by Noah Graham/Getty Images)
(Photo by Noah Graham/Getty Images)
The Oakland Athletics have recently hired Haley Alvarez as the team’s new scouting coordinator, officially becoming the first female evaluator in the franchise’s history.
Alvarez, 24, is the second woman to work in the A’s scouting department and is the first tasked with talent evaluation. Kate Greenthal was an analytics assistant in 2012.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, she’ll help with the A’s draft preparations, input reports into the scouting-report database and also work with assistant general manager/pro scouting Dan Feinstein on the international scouting side.
“It can be difficult at times, but it gives me the motivation and drive to want to do it even more,” Alvarez said. “I’ve been doing this for a while, and everyone has been great. All the teams I’ve been with have been very supportive. I’ve been working a long time to get there, so it lights a fire under me if people say I can’t do it.”
Alvarez is a California native, growing up in Ross. The University of Virginia graduate began her journey with the A’s two years ago and eventually became sponsored by them for scout school.
In 2016, she was an amateur scouting intern with the Red Sox before working for the Reds this past year. While in Cincinnati, she did amateur scouting work and helped implement some sports-science technologies.
