With the first move of a new-look coaching staff on the heels of a majorly disappointing season, the New York Mets are tabbing Jeff Albert as their lead hitting instructor, league sources confirmed.<\/p>\n
Over the last couple of seasons, Albert was the Mets\u2019 director of hitting in player development, helping to oversee a farm system that has greatly improved recently. Albert previously worked as the St. Louis Cardinals\u2019 hitting coach. ESPN first reported the move.<\/p>\n
In his role last season, Albert also spent time around the major-league team, particularly throughout September (the minor-league season ends earlier). The Mets may add another hitting coach who would report to Albert. After the season, New York announced it invited coaching assistant Rafael Fernandez, who worked with hitters, to return to the staff.<\/p>\n
With Albert replacing co-hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez, the Mets are hoping for better consistency from their offense. Statistically, the Mets\u2019 lineup ranked highly in traditional and underlying categories, but they too often experienced lulls.<\/p>\n
Albert\u2019s work in player development should come in handy. The Mets have veterans and stars under contract for the long term, such as Juan Soto, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo, but president of baseball operations David Stearns has said since taking over in 2023 that he wants to leave room for young players. Thus, players such as Brett Baty, Mark Vientos, Luisangel Acu\u00f1a and Ronny Mauricio have received time over the last couple of years. Albert must get the most out of them \u2014 along with young catcher Francisco Alvarez \u2014 to supplement the Mets\u2019 lineup.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the 2025 season, Mets senior vice president for player development Andy Green said Albert was \u201cas bright as anybody in the game when it comes to hitting.\u201d In 2025, Albert\u2019s second full season with the Mets, he helped hire new hitting coaches at each level. Albert\u2019s calling cards as an instructor, according to people who have worked with him, include distilling complex information and breaking down the technical aspects of a swing. The best examples of success in the Mets\u2019 player development under Albert include A.J. Ewing (.688 OPS in affiliated action in 2024, .830 OPS in 2025) and Jacob Reimer (.640 OPS in 2024, .870 OPS in 2025).<\/p>\n
Plenty of vacancies remain on manager Carlos Mendoza\u2019s coaching staff. The Mets need to replace their pitching coach, bench coach, third base coach and catching coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the first move of a new-look coaching staff on the heels of a majorly disappointing season, the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-303652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-mets","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115374670848599862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}