With no baseball being played these days, all we can really do is talk about it. And after a link in one of our Rundown pieces prompted a text from a friend of mine, I made it a point to talk baseball with Rachel Folden. One of only a handful of women coaching for an MLB organization, or just men’s professional sports in general, Folden was named the Cubs’ lead hitting lab tech and hitting coach for Rookie League Mesa back
Part of the revamped developmental infrastructure instituted by Justin Stone, the new director of hitting, Folden will be responsible for interpreting and leveraging all the data collected in the Cubs’ hitting labs.