The Mets promoted Eric Chavez to bench coach and Jeremy Barnes to hitting coach, a supply confirmed to the Daily News.
Glenn Sherlock, who served because the Mets’ bench coach final season, will keep on workers to work with the catchers. This isn’t an unfamiliar position for Sherlock, who labored underneath supervisor Buck Showalter with the Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks as a catching teacher.
The Mets view this as an important position, particularly with high prospect Francisco Alvarez hoping to contribute on the massive league stage subsequent season. The 20-year-old is billed as a power-hitting catcher and the membership had him working with Sherlock within the bullpen throughout his temporary Major League call-up final season.
Sherlock joined the Mets forward of the 2017 season to work with the catchers underneath former supervisor Terry Collins. He returned to the Mets in 2022 after a short stint with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Chavez would be the Mets’ seventh bench coach in as many seasons. He has lengthy been seen as a future supervisor and interviewed for the Los Angeles Angels job in 2018 earlier than it went to Brad Ausmus. With Chavez and Barnes working the hitting program, the Mets put up the second-best OBP (.332) and the sixth-best OPS (.745) within the league final season. Jeff McNeil gained the NL batting title, furthering their credentials.
Chavez, the 44-year-old former Oakland A’s star who additionally performed for the Yankees and Diamondbacks, joined Showalter’s workers final winter. He was set to affix the Yankees as their hitting coach however the Mets employed him away. He beforehand labored underneath Mets’ basic supervisor Billy Eppler with the Yankees as a particular assistant and later with the Angels in the identical position. He additionally briefly managed the Salt Lake Bees, the Angels’ Triple-A affiliate, for a part of the 2018 season after supervisor Keith Johnson joined the Major League workers.
This a step within the course of managing for Chavez and a possibility to be taught from a veteran supervisor like Showalter, who just lately gained his fourth supervisor of the yr award along with his fourth workforce.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com