{"id":218017,"date":"2025-10-16T19:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218017\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:21:10","slug":"red-sox-legend-manny-ramirez-eyes-mlb-hitting-coach-job-ahead-of-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/218017\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Legend Manny Ramirez Eyes MLB Hitting Coach Job Ahead of 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Manny Ram\u00edrez is hoping to return to baseball in a coaching capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;He wants to bring his greatness to teach the young guys,&#8221; his agent, Hector Zepeda, told <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1978893299298558072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Jon Heyman<\/a> of the New York Post, who added that the former slugger has reached out to all 30 MLB teams about becoming a hitting coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That mirrors comments Ram\u00edrez made in late September during an appearance on Foul Territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I just need the opportunity. To be honest, I spoke to Boston last year,&#8221; he said at the time. &#8220;We were talking a little bit and I know they <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/43996721\/mlb-2025-spring-training-boston-red-sox-prospects-marcelo-mayer-roman-anthony-kristian-campbell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">hired a guy<\/a> from Driveline Baseball. We were talking, but then we never got back to, like, getting serious about it. So, they never got back to me. So I never went back to them to see if it was really an opportunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">His credentials as a hitter are impressive: A .312 career batting average with 555 home runs, 1,831 RBI and a .996 OPS. While some of those numbers were perhaps inflated by PED use, there&#8217;s no doubt that Ram\u00edrez was born to hit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Hitting and teaching hitting are not the same, of course. Plenty of amazing athletes aren&#8217;t great coaches for that very reason. Having innate gifts doesn&#8217;t always translate into understanding the underlying mechanics behind them, not to mention being able to communicate that understanding in a digestible way. But Ram\u00edrez is hoping to give it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manny Ram\u00edrez is hoping to return to baseball in a coaching capacity. &#8220;He wants to bring his greatness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-218017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218017","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=218017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}