Chavez promoted to Mets’ bench coach (source)

NEW YORK — Following a yr during which he obtained important credit score for a change within the Mets’ offensive philosophy, hitting coach Eric Chavez is transferring nearer to supervisor Buck Showalter as his bench coach.

Chavez will shift positions whereas assistant hitting coach Jeremy Barnes turns into the hitting coach, an individual with data of the plans confirmed. The staff has but to announce its 2023 teaching employees underneath Showalter.

According to the New York Post, which first reported the mini shakeup, 2022 bench coach Glenn Sherlock will transfer right into a catching teacher’s place. Sherlock has a longstanding relationship with Showalter that goes again many years.

Chavez, 44, got here to the Mets final offseason after normal supervisor Billy Eppler lured him away from an assistant place on the Yankees’ dugout employees. Eppler and Chavez grew to become shut once they have been each members of the Yankees’ group within the early 2010s.

Barnes is a holdover from the earlier regime, which employed him as a participant growth staffer earlier than Eppler moved him into the clubhouse as Chavez’s assistant.

Under Chavez and Barnes, the Mets constructed the most effective batting averages with runners in scoring place early within the season, amongst different feats. Although the staff lacked dwelling run energy relative to different groups, New York completed tied for fifth within the Majors with 4.77 runs per sport.

Elsewhere on the employees, pitching coach Jeremy Hefner is predicted again in the identical position. The Mets plan to announce their full teaching employees at a later date.