During the Winter Meetings in Nashville, the Red Sox indicated they deliberate to make an inside rent to fill their vacant third base coach place. Now it seems the swap has been finalized and the 2024 teaching employees is ready for the season.
According to Peter Abraham of The Boston Globe, the Red Sox will shift former first base coach Kyle Hudson throughout the diamond to 3rd base coach, and area coordinator Andy Fox will transfer into Hudson’s previous spot as first base coach.
The transfer follows the membership’s earlier rent of Andrew Bailey as pitching coach and Justin Willard as director of pitching, and no different teaching hires are anticipated forward of spring coaching.
Hudson initially joined the Red Sox employees final winter and likewise served as outfield coordinator along with his first base teaching duties. Prior to that he spent 4 seasons teaching within the Cleveland Guardians group, together with three years on the MLB employees, and he additionally performed eight seasons of professional ball as a participant, together with 14 video games within the majors with the Baltimore Orioles in 2011.
Hudson takes over for Carlos Febles, who was fired together with former pitching coach Dave Bush following the season and who has since been employed by the Toronto Blue Jays. Febles additionally served as infield coordinator and was let go largely in response to the membership’s persistent defensive woes, and in the course of the Winter Meetings chief baseball officer Craig Breslow stated they hoped having one fewer coach on employees would result in extra “accountability” behind the scenes and higher outcomes on the sphere.
“I think where Alex (Cora) and I have had a bunch of productive conversations is how do we increase the accountability of our staff,” Breslow stated final month. “I think we can speak in greater detail about specifically the work guys need to take on in order to address some of their deficiencies as opposed to just using generalities about ‘getting better’ or ‘becoming better defenders.’”
Though it hasn’t been confirmed who will function infield coordinator, a logical association can be for Hudson to retain his earlier outfield function and for Fox to step in to guide the infielders.
Source: www.bostonherald.com