Rachel Balkovec will be the 1st female manager of an MLB-affiliated team, getting promoted by the New York Yankees to manage Class A Tampa

Balkovec, a former softball catcher at Creighton University and the University of New Mexico, moved from the Cardinals to the Houston Astros in 2016. She was hired as the Latin American strength and conditioning coordinator, a position for which she learned Spanish, and later became the strength and conditioning coach at Double-A Corpus Christi.