Yankees make Rachel Balkovec first female manager in minors

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New York Post / January 9, 2022

Rachel Balkovec shattered one barrier by becoming the first full-time female hitting coach within an MLB organization, and is now set to reach a new frontier.

The 34-year-old Balkovec will be named manager for the Yankees’ Low-A affiliate in Tampa this season, a source confirmed Sunday, as first reported by The Athletic. Balkovec will become the first woman to manage an affiliated minor league team.

She spent the last two seasons as hitting coach in the Yankees’ rookie-level Florida Complex League. Last year she served as the first-base coach for the All-Star Futures Game in Denver — another first for a woman. Balkovec called her trailblazing, “a responsibility” that she doesn’t take lightly.

“I think about it literally every single day,” she said last summer. “There’s not a day that doesn’t cross my mind and think about my actions. … Everything I went through early in my career, I had some trouble getting in, things along the way that have happened, makes it worth it when you know that you’re making change like that. … It’s definitely something I don’t take lightly.”

LINK: https://nypost.com/2022/01/09/yankees-make-rachel-balkovec-first-female-manager-in-minors/



How them how it's done, Rachel. Knock it out of the park.