Via MLB.com, a look at the women who broke barriers in baseball:

Rachel Balkovec was named manager of the Yankees’ Low-A Tampa affiliate in 2022, making her the first woman to manage in affiliated Minor League history.

But she’s far from the first woman trailblazer in Major League Baseball, or baseball period. Women have been doing amazing things to break barriers in baseball throughout the history of the sport.

Here are just some of the women who broke barriers in baseball.

Ronnie Gajownik — First woman to manage at the High-A level
Continuing her rapid rise in the D-backs’ system, Gajownik was named manager of the club’s High-A Hillsboro affiliate for 2023. Gajownik joined the D-backs organization as a video assistant at Hillsboro in ’21, then she was promoted to first base coach for Double-A Amarillo in ’22. She was also a coach with the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League last fall. Prior to her coaching career, Gajownik won a gold medal with Team USA’s women’s baseball team at the 2015 Pan-American Games.

Olivia Pichardo — First woman to make a Division I baseball roster
After trying out for Brown University’s baseball team at outfield, middle infield and pitcher, Pichardo was named to the squad in November 2022 as a utility player for the 2023 season. The organization Baseball For All listed 16 women who played college baseball prior to 2022, but Pichardo is the first at the Division I level. Before making collegiate history, she participated in several of MLB’s youth programs, including the Breakthrough Series in 2018, ’19 and ’21, the 2019 MLB GRIT Girls Invitational and the Girls ID Tour in 2020 in New York, and in ’21 in Boston. Pichardo also pitched and played outfield for the USA Baseball Women’s National Team.

Rachel Balkovec — First female Minor League manager
Prior to her hiring as manager of the Low-A Tampa Tarpoons, Balkovec was already a rising star in the Yankees organization as the hitting coach for their Florida Complex League team. When she was hired for that position in December of 2019, she became the first full-time female hitting coach in a Major League organization. She has extensive experience in baseball analytics, having conducted research on eye movements for hitters and hip movements for pitchers at Driveline Baseball in Washington state. She has also coached in the Australian Baseball League during her 10-year professional baseball career.

Kelsie Whitmore — First woman to join an MLB partner league team
Whitmore made history by becoming the first woman to join an MLB partner league when she signed with the Staten Island FerryHawks of the Atlantic League on April 8, 2022. Whitmore, who will pitch and be used as a utility player for the FerryHawks, was a part of USA Baseball’s women’s team, where she held a 1.35 ERA from 2014 to 2019 and helped guide the team to two gold medals in the Pan-American Games. The Atlantic League is one of the most prestigious independent baseball leagues in North America, with big leaguers such as Rickey Henderson, Tim Raines, José Canseco, Rich Hill, Scott Kazmir and Mat Latos all passing through their ranks at one point in their careers.

Genevieve Beacom — First woman to play in ABL
Beacom made history on Jan. 8, 2022, when the 17-year-old made her Australian Baseball League debut on the mound for the Melbourne Aces, becoming the first female player in the league’s history. She threw a scoreless sixth inning for Melbourne against the Adelaide Giants. Dozens of future MLB players have played in the ABL, with Ronald Acuña Jr., Liam Hendriks, Didi Gregorius, Kevin Kiermaier, Ji-Man Choi, Rhys Hoskins, Adam Engel and Andrew Kittredge among the league’s notable alumni.

Sara Goodrum — Astros director of player development
Prior to being hired as Houston’s director of player development in Jan. 2022, Goodrum became the first female hitting coordinator in affiliated Minor League history when the Brewers hired her for that position in 2021. Her role with the Astros is to oversee all player development staff and collaborate with coordinators on the core duties of the recruiting, hiring and development of the player development staff. It also includes spearheading the formation and execution of coaching philosophies as well as the formation and execution of the player development goal process.

Kim Ng — MLB’s first woman GM
When Ng was named the Marlins’ general manager, she made history as MLB’s first female and second Asian-American GM. She is also believed to be the first woman to hold a GM position in any of the professional men’s teams in the major North American sports. Ng came to the Marlins with immense experience in baseball, having worked in front office roles with the White Sox (1990-96), Yankees (1998-2001) and Dodgers (2002-11) — winning three World Series championships — before moving on to the Commissioner’s Office, where she had worked since ‘11. When the Yankees hired Ng as an assistant GM at 29, she was the youngest person to hold such a title in MLB.

Alyssa Nakken — MLB’s first woman Major League coach
The former Sacramento State softball player joined manager Gabe Kapler’s staff in San Francisco in January 2020, becoming the first full-time female coach on a big league team’s staff, with the title of Major League assistant coach. She then continued breaking barriers when she spent some time coaching first base during a Giants exhibition game prior to the start of the season. It marked the first time a woman had served in an on-field capacity during an MLB game. After Opening Day, Nakken donated her No. 92 Giants jersey to the Hall of Fame to commemorate the occasion. Then, on April 12, 2022, Nakken became the first woman to serve as a coach in an on-field role in a regular-season game, replacing first base coach Antoan Richardson after Richardson was ejected from the game.