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MIAMI -- Rachel Balkovec has agreed to become the Marlins' director of player development, Miami announced on Tuesday, a week after the news broke. Balkovec's hiring was made official in conjunction with the hiring of Gabe Kapler as the assistant general manager, Vinesh Kanthan as the director of baseball operations
Balkovec, 36, has spent the past two seasons as the manager of the Tampa Tarpons, the Single A affiliate for the New York Yankees. She was the first woman to work as a full-time manager for an MLB-affiliated team.
‘It gets rid of this expectation. It’s not good enough just to be in the big leagues for us. It’s “we want to win games,” which we’re doing right now.’
Luis Arraez’s success has been well documented. Xavier Edwards’ is worth monitoring.
A report by Jacob Bernstein for The New York Times. Like every American family, the one the House of Xtravaganza made together had tragedies and victories. Famous New Yorkers usually fall into one of two categories. The largest group is people known primarily for what they do: titans of industry, artists, athletes. A smaller group is…