The Twins introduced their finalized teaching employees Thursday, together with three new hires: assistant hitting coaches Trevor Amicone and Rayden Sierra, and first base/infield coach Ramon Borrego. Former first base/catching coach Hank Conger is now the workforce’s assistant bench coach and catching coach.
Amicone involves the Twins from the Yankees group. He’s spent the previous 5 seasons there, breaking into skilled teaching as an teacher at their alternate website in 2020 and spending the 2021-22 seasons as a hitting coach with the Yankees’ associates within the Dominican Summer season League. He’s been the hitting coach for the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders for the previous two seasons. He’ll function the Twins’ No. 2 hitting coach behind Matt Borgschulte, whom the Twins employed away from the Orioles earlier this offseason. (Borgschulte had been a coach within the Twins’ minor league ranks previous to his time in Baltimore.)
Each Sierra and Borrego have been in-house minor league coaches who at the moment are becoming a member of the large league employees. Sierra has spent the previous 5 seasons in a wide range of roles inside the system. He’s been a hitting coach in Class-A Fort Myers, served as an assistant hitting and growth coach, and spent the 2024 season because the Twins’ assistant minor league hitting coordinator. Borrego has been with the Twins for greater than 20 years, together with 14 seasons as a supervisor. He’s been managing the Twins’ Double-A affiliate since 2019 and thus has an current relationship with a variety of Minnesota’s homegrown gamers, together with Royce Lewis, Jose Miranda, Matt Wallner, Edouard Julien, Jhoan Duran, Griffin Jax and others. He was additionally a coach on Venezuela’s employees within the 2023 World Baseball Traditional.
That trio will work with supervisor Rocco Baldelli, bench coach Jayce Tingler, Borgschulte, pitching coach Pete Maki, bullpen coach Colby Suggs, third base/outfield coach Tommy Watkins, assistant pitching coach Luis Ramirez and high quality management coach Nate Dammann for the 2025 season.
