Although women are still severely underrepresented in virtually every facet of baseball operations—a Mariners scout, Amanda Hopkins, became the first full-time female scout since the 1950s when the team hired her in 2015—player development is among the most demographically lopsided areas, even though minor- or major-league playing experience is no longer a prerequisite for employment. According to a list provided by MLB in November 2018, Manning was at that time one of only three women working in nonadministrative roles in a major-league team’s player-development department, and the only one
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