Alyssa Nakken’s impact, solving MLB’s demographic problem with Rachel Balkovec

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Balk Talk, Jessica Kleinschmidt is joined by Yankees hitting coach Rachel Balkovec to discuss a number of different topics, including the influence of Giants coach Alyssa Nakken, what it takes to be a good MLB hitter and how MLB can appeal to a younger demographic. (2:07) Balkovec details her journey to the Yankees organization (10:02) What does it take to be a good MLB hitter? (15:05) Balkovec discusses her interview with the Giants (27:50) Balkovec reveals how MLB can improve overall (35:09) How can MLB attract the younger demographic?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Boc Talk podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
0:11.1	Introducing your host, NBC Sports Bay Area's Jessica Kleinschmidt.
0:16.1	Welcome back to another episode of Bach Talk presented by Wendy's.
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0:31.8	I'm so excited and I really, really am excited to be joined by the wonderful first female hitting coach in Elbe
0:39.8	history, Rachel Baclbeck. Rachel, thank you so much for joining me today. I know I prefaced
0:44.9	before how excited I am, but I'm going to keep saying it until you're sick of it. Thank you so
0:49.9	much for being here. She's like, sometimes I say I'm excited and I'm not, but this time I'm really
0:54.4	excited. Yeah, I mean, like, I don't want to be rude to your guests, be like, okay, cool,
0:58.7	you're here, but like there's no BSing with me today. I'm just Jack that you're here. Um,
1:04.0	so before we get started on the coaching stuff, I just want to, I want to talk about you and your story is just so interesting because I listened to a lot of
1:12.1	your interviews and a lot of the things you say resonate with me. But first and foremost, you know,
1:17.7	tell me this as much as you possibly can compact it, your timeline from the time, you know,
1:23.9	you got started with your career to now you're with the Yankees. So do your best to kind of
1:28.2	say as much as you possibly can, but the floor is yours. And I'm really curious about your journey.
1:33.4	As many times as I've told this, I still haven't like perfected it into a small little nugget.
1:39.4	So but I mean, long story short, which might be a couple of minutes is basically, like, grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, played softball my whole life, wanted to play professional softball from the time I was like 10. So I was really serious, you know, athlete.
1:53.9	Ended up going and playing in college, played at New Mexico. And then I studied exercise science in college. And I pretty much always knew I would be in sports.
2:00.8	Like there was, I don't think the world might be surprised,
2:04.1	but none of my college teammates or high school teammates or family is surprised about what I'm doing with my life.
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