Yankees To Hire Rachel Balkovec As First Female Manager In Minor League History
by Larry Leo
January 10, 202223 Comments
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The New York Yankees are on the verge of making history by hiring Rachel Balkovec as the first female manager in Minor League Baseball history. The 34-year-old former college softball catcher, who first joined the Yanks in 2019, will be promoted as skipper of the Low A Tampa Tarpons, according to the AP.quote:
Balkovec has been working in pro baseball since 2012, when she became the strength and conditioning coach in the St. Louis Cardinals' farm system.
She later joined the Houston Astros organization in 2016 ... eventually holding the same position for their Double-A Corpus Christi affiliate.
Balkovec is a trailblazer in the sport -- she already made history when she was hired as a minor league hitting coach for the Yanks 3 years ago, the first woman to be named to that position.
Balkovec also participated in last season's Futures Game as a coach, becoming the first woman to do so.
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