Los Miami Marlins they are hiring Rachel Balkovec as director of player development, sources told MLB.com’s Christina De Nicola. One more woman joins the player development coaching staff of the Marlins franchise.
Balkovec spent the last two seasons as manager of the Single-A affiliate of the New York Yankees. She is the first woman to serve as a full-time manager of a team affiliated with the major leagues, now she returns to assume another role where she would make way for more women.
Rachel Balkovec joins a renewed board of the Miami Marlins under new president of baseball operations Peter Bendix, who joined the franchise in November after spending the previous two seasons as general manager of the Tampa Bay Rays.
It is worth highlighting that the Miami Marlins They also hired former MLB manager Gabe Kapler as assistant general manager earlier this offseason.
A bit of the history of Balkovec.
After graduating in 2014, she became the first woman hired as a full-time professional baseball coordinator. Two years later, the Astros hired her as the organization’s Latin American strength and conditioning coordinator. While in 2018, she was hired as a strength and conditioning coach for the club’s Double A affiliate.
Notably, Balkovec worked on his master’s degree at the Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands, researching the sciences of human movement with a focus on biomechanics. He has spent time researching hitters’ eye tracking and pitchers’ hip motion at the data-driven performance center Driveline Baseball. Balkovec also coached in the Australian Baseball League after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the 2020 Minor League season, and she was named to the coaching staff for the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game ’21 at Coors Field.
Your experience in Softball.
Balkovec has experience in cutting-edge analytics, starting as an exercise science student at Creighton and New Mexico, where she was an NCAA Division I catcher on their softball teams. Balkovec later earned a master’s degree in kinesiology from LSU in 2012. (Via MLB.COM).
2024-01-10 01:29:51
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