{"id":934499,"date":"2026-10-20T03:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934499\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:44:11","slug":"mets-to-interview-kevin-long-about-coaching-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934499\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets To Interview Kevin Long About Coaching Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mets and Kevin Long will meet tomorrow to discuss a possible role on the coaching staff, according to Mike Puma of the New York Post<\/a>.\u00a0 Long is a familiar face in Queens, as he previously worked as the Mets\u2019 hitting coach during the 2015-17 seasons.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s logical to assume that Long is a candidate for the Mets\u2019 director of hitting role, as Jeff Albert is moving on<\/a> after four years in the job.\u00a0 The director of hitting position oversees the offensive approach for both the big league club and the organization as a whole, though there seemed to be a bit more focus on the active roster last year since Albert was a uniformed member of the 2026 coaching staff.<\/p>\n

Troy Snitker is expected to return for his second year as New York\u2019s hitting coach, so unless those plans have changed, Long probably isn\u2019t being viewed as a replacement.\u00a0 That said, Long only just came onto the market less than a week ago, after the Phillies parted ways<\/a> with the 59-year-old with two years remaining on his contract.\u00a0 The director of hitting vacancy provides an easy way for the Mets to have both Long and Snitker on board, if that is the club\u2019s preference.<\/p>\n

Long has spent the last 20 seasons as a Major League hitting coach, splitting that time between the Yankees (2007-14), Mets (2015-17), Nationals (2018-21), and Phillies (2022-26).\u00a0 Several of those years saw Long\u2019s teams post some of the best offensive numbers in baseball, and his career highlights include World Series rings with the 2009 Yankees and the 2019 Nationals.<\/p>\n

None of the hitters from the 2017 Mets remain on New York\u2019s roster, but a very prominent member of Washington\u2019s 2018-21 squads is on hand in Juan Soto<\/a>.\u00a0 Puma writes that Long and Soto are \u201cclose,\u201d which is another selling point in favor of Long making a return to New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets and Kevin Long will meet tomorrow to discuss a possible role on the coaching staff, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,501106,591,85],"class_list":["post-934499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-kevin-long","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}