{"id":923348,"date":"2026-10-06T23:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923348\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:40:20","slug":"former-red-sox-star-looking-to-make-mlb-return-as-hitting-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923348\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Red Sox Star Looking to Make MLB Return as Hitting Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sox<\/a> of the early 2000s had one of baseball\u2019s most feared lineups. That\u2019s especially true with players like David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez. After years away from baseball, Ramirez aims to offer his talents to other teams. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/2107182851674562618?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jon Heyman<\/a>, Ramirez looks to return to MLB as a hitting coach. It would be his first job in baseball since appearing as a player\/coach for the Sydney Blue Sox in Australia in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Heyman stated on social media that Ramirez would \u201clove\u201d to serve as a hitting coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to bring his greatness to teach the young guys,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonHeyman\/status\/1978893299298558072?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said agent Hector Zepeda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez was picked in the first round by the then-Cleveland Indians in the 1991 MLB Draft and immediately made an impact. He placed second in Rookie of the Year voting in 1994 and 12th in MVP voting the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez signed with the Red Sox in 2000. In eight years with the Red Sox, a run that included two World Series wins, he hit 274 home runs and slashed .312\/.411\/.588 with a .999 OPS in 1,083 games.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;Manny Being Manny&#8221; became popular in Boston. He got traded to the Dodgers in 2008 and ended his career with 555 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez last appeared in an MLB game with the Rays in 2011. A knock on his career: multiple positive tests for performance-enhancing drugs. Since then, he\u2019s played baseball around the world and acted as a mentor with the Cubs in the 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>More Red Sox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox of the early 2000s had one of baseball\u2019s most feared lineups. That\u2019s especially true with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-923348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923348","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=923348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}