The Marlins have employed Pedro Guerrero as their new hitting coach, in response to The Athletic’s Katie Woo and Andrew Baggarly. Daniel Alvarez-Montes of El Extrabase reported earlier tonight that Guerrero and the Marlins have been nearing a deal, and Baggarly reported final week that Guerrero was interviewing with Miami about an unspecified place on their teaching employees.
Guerrero involves the Marlins after three seasons as an assistant hitting coach with the Giants. Notably, the primary two seasons of Guerrero’s tenure in San Francisco continued his affiliation with Gabe Kapler, who was then the Giants’ supervisor and is now Miami’s assistant normal supervisor. Earlier than coming to the Giants, Guerrero was additionally an assistant hitting coach with the Phillies from 2018-21, overlapping Kapler’s time as Philadelphia’s supervisor through the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
Miami has principally nowhere to go however up relating to hitting, because the 62-100 group naturally ranked close to the underside of the league in most main batting classes. Former hitting coach John Mabry and assistant hitting coaches Invoice Mueller and Jason Hart can’t be solely blamed for the shortage of manufacturing, after all, because the Marlins’ rebuild left the roster more and more gutted of big-league caliber expertise because the season developed. That stated, the Fish additionally didn’t even hit a lot after they reached the playoffs in 2023, as Miami ranked twenty sixth within the league in runs scored however benefited from an distinctive 33-14 file in one-run video games.
Now that Clayton McCullough has been put in because the Marlins’ new supervisor, Guerrero is the primary member of what’s going to be a completely new set of coaches. Miami underwent an inner overhaul after the season that noticed the membership hearth not solely the entire incumbent teaching employees, but additionally everybody from the coaching staffers to clubhouse attendants. This leaves the Marlins with loads of positions to fill within the coming weeks and months, and with McCullough now in place as supervisor, hirings determine to start shortly.
As for the Giants, they’ve now misplaced two members of their three-person employees of hitting instructors, between Guerrero’s departure and Justin Viele leaving to develop into the Rangers’ new hitting coach. Woo and Baggarly write that the Giants will set up only one new hitting coach as a substitute of two, and that sole new rent will group with the returning Pat Burrell because the hitting-coach tandem.
