Hopkins was drafted as the eighth pick in the annual Atlantic League draft.
Founded in 1998, the Atlantic League is on the highest level of professional baseball excluding Major League Baseball and is an official MLB partner league based in the US' Southeast region,Over 40% of the league's players have MLB experience, and each year, the league averages over 50 player contract sales to MLB organizations, according to the league's website.
The Genomes -- for whom Lindsay Gardner serves as a hitting consultant -- said in an Instagram post that multiple women in the clubhouse would help the team to"continue changing the face of professional baseball.""We are extremely excited to give Scrappy an opportunity to play in Lexington and to be the first female in the Atlantic League," said Genomes manager Mark Minicozzi, according to Kentucky-based NBC affiliate LEX 18.
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