The Boston Red Sox announced Monday that they hired Bianca Smith, 29, to be a minor league coach.
Smith becomes the first Black woman to coach in professional baseball.
Smith has worked as the assistant coach and hitting coordinator at Carroll University in Wisconsin since 2018. With the Red Sox, she will be based at the team's player development facility in Fort Myers, Florida, working primarily with position players.
"The opportunity is amazing," Smith said Monday during an interview with MLB Network. "I'm still wrapping my head around it. I probably won't really have it sink in until I'm actually there.