"I love being able to see people with no preconceptions," Gauci said. "At the end of the day, I'm a woman in a male-dominated sport, right? I was a woman on the baseball field. If everybody [prejudged] me, I wouldn't be where I am today.

"They'd look at me and say I'm undersized. They'd say I'm a woman and I shouldn't be on the field. That I should be playing softball. If I had the same approach to how I coach hitters, that would be horrible, right? I would just see everybody at face value.

"So, I have the coaching style of coming out there to help everybody, no matter what round they were drafted, no matter the color of their skin, male or female. I'm driven to be the best coach I can because I'm never going to play in the big leagues, but I can help other people do that."