A woman working for the New York Yankees may be in a league of her own if recent reports are true.
The Yankees reportedly hired Rachel Balkovec, a minor league baseball coach for the team, as its manager of the club’s Low-A affiliate, the Tampa Tarpons. The move would make Balkovec the first female manager in affiliated professional baseball, sources told the Athletic on Sunday.
Balkovec, 34, began her baseball career as a strength and conditioning intern for minor league baseball’s St. Louis Cardinals in 2012. She would serve the same position in 2013 for Arizona State University and the Chicago White Sox, according to her website.
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In 2019, she earned her master’s degree in biomechanics in the Netherlands, where she also worked as an intern with Driveline Baseball, a data-driven baseball player development organization. Her website states she was hired by the Yankees later in the year as a minor-league hitting coach.
“Everyone has different methods of growth, but my drinks of choice are traveling and training,” Balkovec wrote in September 2020 on her website. “More specifically, I’ve lived in 15 cities in the past 12 years, I visited 9 countries in the past year and I just moved to Tampa to start a new job with the Yankees as a minor league hitting coach.”
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Balkovec and the Tampa Tarpons have not responded to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
