Yankees flaunt unique skillset of latest history-making hitting coach Rachel Balkovec

Rachel Balkovec made Major League Baseball (MLB) history in vember 2019 when she became first woman to be hired as a full-time mir league hitting coach for a professional baseball team after being employed by New York Yankees. She will start working in Tampa, Florida on February 1. She is currently working at a pitching and hitting training facility in Kent as a baseball research and development fellow.

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MLB: Yankees sign female hitting coach Rachel Balkovec

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Yankees hired Rachel Balkovec clearly on her qualifications and t her . two master’s degrees achieved by Balkovec in science of human movement and involvement at several mir league clubs made Yankees feel that her skill set was a natural fit with coaching crew being assembled for next term. When quizzed about her appointment, Yankees’ hitting coordinator Dillon Lawson had said that Balkovec is a good hitting coach which sums up why y signed her. Lawson and Balkovec enjoyed an excellent working relationship at  Houston Astros in 2016, where latter served as Latin American strength and conditioning coach while former was mir league hitting coach. She later became strength and conditioning coach for Astros’ Class AA Corpus Christi Hooks.

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MLB: Yankees hitting coach Rachel Balkovec and her invaluable skillset 

Rachel Balkovec has worked hard to stay on top of quick changes in game, precisely using figures to build a team and maximise player performances. To remain up-to-date, Balkovec enrolled in Vrije University in Nerlands to complete a master’s degree in human movement sciences. re, she mastered in eye tracking for hitters and hip movements of pitchers. Yankees’ latest recruit seeks to train batters to focus on a pitcher’s centre, fringe vision of pitcher’s body and to look forward of ball to predict its flight better. Lawson says that combination of skills is invaluable, making her one of top coaches to have in Yankees franchise.

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