Pioneers manager Rachel Balkovec leaves Yankees for Marlins promotion.
Rachel Balkovec is moving up, but from the Yankees organization.After being the first woman to manage a minor league team and the Yankees’ Low-A club for the past two seasons, Balkovec has agreed to become the Marlins’ director of player development, a source confirmed to The Post on Tuesday. MLB.com first reported the hiring.Balkovec has expressed in the past that he wants to be a general manager in the future, so a move from the dugout to the front office seems to fit that goal.Balkovec, 36, joined the Yankees organization in November 2019 as the minor league hitting coach after serving as the minor league strength and conditioning coach for the Cardinals and Astros.He was then promoted to Low-A Tampa.
“Overall, I think I want to be a head coach, and now I’m obviously in a role where it’s a lot of leadership responsibility, but I want all the pressure,” Balkovec told The Post’s Steve Serby in April. 2022.“So I want to be a general manager, and I think the GM of most baseball teams is someone who makes maybe more decisions than a major league manager. I’m also interested in the whole organization and not just one team, so I think it’s just a bird’s eye view.”.
When Kim Ng was hired in 2020, the Marlins were the first MLB organization to have a female general manager, although Ng left the club after the previous season after seeking to hire a director of baseball operations over her.The Marlins later hired former Rays GM Peter Bendix as their new director of baseball operations and now have Balkovec on their staff..
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