An
entry in today’s Transactions caught my eye—the Red Sox promoted Raquel
Ferreira to vice president of baseball administration. Ferreira thus becomes the third woman ever to
hold that position with a major-league ball club. Then I went on-line and found out there are
also seven women general managers working for MLB-affiliated minor-league
teams.
Here’s
the thing: minor-league GMs don’t trade players. They have plenty of duties, or
responsibilities, just like in the Catholic Church. What they don’t have is an abundance of
power. In the same way, Ms. Ferreira no doubt
is responsible for a ton of stuff; just don’t expect her to be signing free
agents anytime soon.
Still,
it’s progress of a sort. Guys used to do
this work. But is it something they came
to think they could stick women with? We’ll
see.
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