{"id":213645,"date":"2025-10-15T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213645\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T01:14:08","slug":"mets-to-add-jeff-albert-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213645\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets To Add Jeff Albert To Coaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets are adding Jeff Albert to their uniformed coach staff, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffPassan\/status\/1978185040077955274\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Passan of ESPN<\/a>. Previously the director of hitting development, he will run the club\u2019s hitting program next year. Passan doesn\u2019t explicitly say what Albert\u2019s title will be, though he notes that the club plans add another hitting coach to complement him.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible Albert ends up with a classic hitting coach title, though some clubs get creative with these kinds of things. Perhaps the Mets will call him an offensive coordinator or a senior director of hitting strategy or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, the larger point is that he\u2019ll be atop the club\u2019s hitting hierarchy. He previously served as the hitting coach for the Cardinals from 2019 to 2022. It\u2019s always tough to separate the contributions of a coach from the players on his team, but for what it\u2019s worth, the Cards slashed a combined .246\/.321\/.411 during Albert\u2019s time with that club. That translated to a league-average wRC+ of 100.<\/p>\n<p>He decided not to return to the Cards after that 2022 season, even though they were planning to offer him a multi-year extension. He was then hired by the Mets as director of hitting development and has been working with the club\u2019s minor leaguers for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>After a disappointing 2025 season, the Mets are making a number of notable coaching changes. The offense wasn\u2019t a big part of the club\u2019s poor performance, as their .249\/.326\/.427 line led to a 112 wRC+, a mark that was bested by just three MLB teams. Regardless, hitting coaches Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes are two of the guys who won\u2019t be coming back. Albert will step up and take over, though as mentioned, another hitting coach will be added at some point. It\u2019s unclear if that additional hitting coach will be an internal hire or if the Mets will conduct an external search.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of Jeff Curry, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets are adding Jeff Albert to their uniformed coach staff, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN. Previously the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,103628,462,82],"class_list":["post-213645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jeff-albert","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}