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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.

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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.

Filed Under: MLB

Originally published on TigerDroppings.com

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mr bunion•47 months

Will be a failed experiment. And very quickly

skullopener•47 months

that's a man.

KennabraTiger•47 months

She looks like Roxanne from A Goofy Movie. I’d hit it.

WeeWee•47 months

I’m not going to lie. I would hit it.

young man tiger•47 months

Heated visits to the ump should be fun. She comes running up high pitched yapping like a chihuahua, Blue is like “bitch please. Go sit”

CaptainJ47•47 months

Wonder if all the hate changes when people realize she got a degree from LSU

lsuohiofan•47 months

So she went from being a strength coach to a hitting coach and now a manager? What? Professional sports has gone nuts! Just wait till they cannot fire her!

TigerOnTheMountain•47 months

At this point I’m convinced MLB doesn’t want to exist anymore.

tigertown80•47 months

I Sure hope she nose what’s she’s getting into.

Godfather1•47 months

Yeah, absolutely NOTHING could POSSIBLY go wrong here.

Doug Masters•47 months

Tampa Tampons?

nolasalt•47 months

I thought the same thing when I first skimmed the article lol

BuzzSaw 12•47 months

Wow! So brave and so woke of the Yankees to make a move like this. I'm sure all the Yankee prospects that end up on that team can't wait to be a part of such an historic social experiment that is sure to help advance their chances of making it to the big leagues someday. Yay!!!! Go team!!!!

SLAP99•47 months

It's a job. If she can do it she'll keep it or get promoted. If not she'll get fired. Just like everyone else. It's not woke it's a hire. Apparently women work nowadays.

CanebreakCajun•47 months

Is this an au-natural woman or a modern day "woman"?

LSUtoBOOT•47 months

Kinda looks like Yogi Berra, any relation?

Damathe•47 months

Saw her many times in/with Corpus Christi. Don't take this the wrong way but her arse/lower body are perfect for a catcher. No, really.

ElTigreFuego•47 months

Can confirm

FullFontE•47 months

Upon quick glance, I thought the team was named the Tampa Tampons! Lol

ncinthenext3•47 months

Well, no one may have called them that before, but they will now.

nolasalt•47 months

Glad I’m not the only one.

TOSOV•47 months

Meh...still not going to bring back fans that have left the stands. MLB needs to figure how to get those people back as they are losing generational fans that watched because their dad and papaw's, etc watched. That's where sports kept their fanbase, as enough people just don't pick up out of nowhere. Like hockey...I didn't grow up watching it caring for it much. Though it's a solid sport I'm not becoming a dependable fan. Other than going to a game I'm invited to. Though the NHL had an opp to cover my sports needs, but they joined the blm garbage too.

DeafVallyBatnR•47 months

Doesn't matter Yankees usually don't bring guys up from farm. They use them to trade away for big money player in another Franchise.

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