{"id":228439,"date":"2025-10-21T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228439\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:46:07","slug":"tigers-not-bringing-back-anthony-iapoce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/228439\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Not Bringing Back Anthony Iapoce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First base coach Anthony Iapoce will not return to the team next season, as first <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/martinonyc\/status\/1980305086673985810\" rel=\"nofollow\">reported by Andy Martino of SNY<\/a>. He had served in the position since 2024. Iapoce had been in the organization for the past three seasons. He managed Detroit\u2019s Triple-A affiliate, the Toledo Mud Hens, in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/anthony-iapoce-won-t-return-to-detroit-tigers-as-first-base-coach\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jason Beck of MLB.com noted<\/a>, Iapoce was well-regarded in the Tigers\u2019 clubhouse. Players were seen with \u201cCoach Poce\u201d t-shirts before games.<\/p>\n<p>Iapoce has held a variety of roles since wrapping up an 11-year playing career in 2005. He worked as a minor league hitting coach for the Marlins\u2019 organization from 2006 to 2009. Iapoce spent the next three seasons as a minor league hitting coordinator with Toronto. From there he moved on to the Cubs, working as a special assistant to the General Manager from 2013 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Iapoce earned his first MLB gig in 2016, serving as the hitting coach for the Rangers. He held that role until 2019, when he became the Cubs\u2019 hitting coach, a position he would occupy through 2021. Texas was a top 10 scoring offense in 2016 and 2017, before slipping to 14th in Iapoce\u2019s final season. Chicago topped out at 10th in scoring during Iapoce\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Given his extensive experience and the support he had in Detroit, Iapoce seems like a good bet to latch on with another club this upcoming season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First base coach Anthony Iapoce will not return to the team next season, as first reported by Andy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[109065,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-228439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-anthony-iapoce","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228439","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=228439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}