{"id":369948,"date":"2025-11-10T20:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369948\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:27:20","slug":"yankees-tap-in-house-candidate-dan-fiorito-as-new-first-base-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/369948\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees tap in-house candidate Dan Fiorito as new first base coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Yankees are going in-house to fill the hole on Aaron Boone\u2019s coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>The club has hired Dan Fiorito as its new first base coach, The Post has learned, promoting the organization\u2019s outfield\/infield coordinator to replace Travis Chapman.<\/p>\n<p>Fiorito is expected to double as the Yankees\u2019 infield coach, as Chapman did, and finish off the revamping of Boone\u2019s staff heading into 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Gone are Chapman, bullpen coach Mike Harkey and assistant hitting coach Pat Roessler, and in are Fiorito, Desi Druschel and Jake Hirst.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.65234375;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37628025\" width=\"385\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/arie-goldman-hecht-19437120.jpg\" alt=\"Dan Fiorito has been tapped as the Yankees' new first base coach.\" class=\"wp-image-37628025\"  \/>Dan Fiorito has been tapped as the Yankees\u2019 new first base coach. Arie Goldman-Hecht<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43820225;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37628071\" width=\"849\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-york-yankees-designated-hitter-109000708.jpg\" alt=\"Giancarlo Stanton and Travis Chapman\" class=\"wp-image-37628071\"  \/>He replaces Travis Chapman (r). JASON SZENES FOR NY POST<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Fiorito previously served as the manager at Double-A Somerset in 2022 and High-A Hudson Valley in 2021, crossing paths with shortstop Anthony Volpe at both stops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Fordham Prep grad, Fiorito played all four infield spots during his time in the Yankees\u2019 minor league organization from 2013-16 before he transitioned to a coaching role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 The Yankees are going in-house to fill the hole on Aaron Boone\u2019s coaching staff. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":369949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1266,405,403,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-369948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-yankees","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115527290266716292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369948","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=369948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}