Just last night (Sunday), we learned that the New York Yankees had fired their batting coach Dillon Lawson, after a disastrous first half of the batting campaign.
And the position did not remain vacant for very long. Indeed, the Bronx Bombers will announce shortly that Sean Casey is their man for the position of batting coach.
The 49-year-old announced his retirement as a player in 2009 after 12 seasons and 1,405 games split between the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Guardians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox .
During his time in MLB, he posted a .300-plus batting average in six of his 12 seasons, finishing with a career .302 batting average, which could go a long way toward helping Yankees batting improve on their weak batting percentage. presence on the trails, especially since the injury of captain Aaron Judge.
The one who was an analyst at the MLB Network before this hiring has never been a coach. He is close to vice president of baseball operations Tim Naehring, as well as manager Aaron Boone, who were teammates from 1998 to 2003 with the Reds.
Speaking of the latter, it looks like he’s in good shape, according to SNY network’s Andy Martino, despite his countless bad decisions that cost the Yankees several games this season.
It would probably be asking too much of general manager Brian Cashman to fire two coaches in the same season…
