{"id":410526,"date":"2026-01-15T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:37:07","slug":"braves-hire-johnny-washington-as-hitting-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410526\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Hire Johnny Washington As Hitting Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves are hiring Johnny Washington as minor league hitting coordinator, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBlum3\/status\/2011207864610930703?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports Sam Blum of The Athletic<\/a>. The 41-year-old has spent the last two seasons as MLB hitting coach with the Angels.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is an experienced instructor who has three seasons as a big league hitting coach on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. He held that role for one year in San Diego (2019) amidst four seasons in various roles with the Padres. Washington then spent a season coaching hitters in Korea with the Hanwha Eagles before returning to affiliated ball as an assistant with the Cubs. He made the jump to Los Angeles two years later under skipper Ron Washington (no relation).<\/p>\n<p>The Angels ranked 27th in scoring over the last two seasons. They were one of the better power-hitting teams in MLB, finishing fourth with 226 home runs a year ago. The team\u2019s approach didn\u2019t progress as needed, as they\u2019re one of three teams \u2014 alongside the White Sox and Rockies \u2014 that had an on-base percentage below .300 between 2024-25. No team had a higher strikeout rate last season, and only Colorado fanned more often within the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to parse a coach\u2019s performance from the roster with which they\u2019re working. The Halos have a lineup mostly stacked with right-handed power hitters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/n\/netoza01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zach Neto<\/a> has developed into a quality hitter, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/adelljo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jo Adell<\/a> has become a potent power bat even if his OBP still leaves much to be desired. On the other end,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ohopplo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-01-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Logan O\u2019Hoppe<\/a> went backwards last year after showing offensive promise during his first two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Halos moved on from Ron Washington at the end of the season. New skipper Kurt Suzuki overhauled the staff, including a fascinating hitting coach hire. They tabbed three-time All-Star Brady Anderson, who hasn\u2019t worked in affiliated ball since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves are hiring Johnny Washington as minor league hitting coordinator, reports Sam Blum of The Athletic. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,172804,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-410526","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-johnny-washington","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410526","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=410526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}