LAS VEGAS — The Yankees have filled a coaching vacancy with an insider that most everyone in the organization raves about on the eve of this week’s General Manager Meetings.

Before GM Brian Cashman meets up with colleagues and agents to initiate trade talks and free agent signings at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the Yankees promoted Dan Fiorioto was promoted to manager Aaron Boone’s new first base and infield coach after eight seasons in the minors.

The New York Post first reported the promotion for Fiorito, who was the Yankees’ minor league outfield/infield coordinator the last two seasons.

Fiorito, 35, replaces Travis Chapman, whose contract wasn’t renewed after four seasons as the Yankees’ first base and infield coach.

Fiorito was picked over former Angels bench coach Ryan Goins, an MLB official told NJ Advance Media.

Goins, 37, was a major-league infielder for eight seasons and coached for the Angels for the last two seasons, first as an infield coach and then an interim bench coach after manager Ron Washington left the team last June on a medical leave.

Besides Chapman, two others from the Yankees’ 2025 staff won’t be back next season – bullpen coach Mike Harkey and assistant hitting coach Pat Roessler. Jake Hirst has been promoted from minor-league hitting coordinator to replace Roessler and Desi Druschel rejoined the organization after one season with the Mets to be a pitching coach.

Druschel may return to his 2022-24 Yankees role as assistant pitching coach with Preston Claiborne possibly switching from assistant pitching coach to bullpen coach.

Fiorito managed in the Yankees’ organization for three seasons and in 2022 skippered the Double-A Somerset Patriots to the franchise’s Eastern League Championship. The Yonkers native was voted league manager of the year after the ’22 Patriots finished the regular season with a league-best 83-53 record and beat Erie in a best-of-three championship series, the clincher a 15-0 no-hit victory in which Randy Vasquez pitched the first eight innings.

Here is Fiorito’s bio from the 2025 Yankees’ media guide:

BORN: 8/20/90 in Yonkers.

RESIDES: Yonkers.

COACHING CAREER: 2025 was eighth season in the Yankees organization and his second as minor-league infield/outfielder coordinator. … Previously served as roving infield/outfield instructor from 2022-23. … Managed Somerset in 2022 and high-A Hudson Valley in 2021. … Made managerial debut in 2019 with the GCL Yankees East and had been slated to manage the Yankees’ former short-season Single-A Staten Island affiliate in 2020 before minor-league season was canceled due to the COVID. … Defensive coach at Yankees’ former Low A Charleston affiliate in 2018. … Made professional coaching debut as defensive coach with the Yankees’ former rookie-level Pulaski affiliate in 2017.

PLAYING CAREER: Signed by Yankees as non-drafted free agent in 2012. … Over four seasons in the Yankees system, the infielder batted .240 (264-for-1102) with 52 doubles, 6 triples, 7 homers and 98 RBI in 322 career games.

PERSONAL: Played three years at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., where he was named to the 2012 ABCA All-America Third Team, making him the first male two-time All-American in the school’s history. … Was a D3Baseball.com honorable mention All-American in 2010. … Named 2012 NCBWA Mid-Atlantic Region Player of the Year. … 2008 graduate of Fordham Prep in the Bronx.

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