New York Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns teased that major changes to the coaching staff outside of Carlos Mendoza were on the horizon. On Friday, he executed those changes.

Hitting coaches Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes, along with pitching coach Jeremy Hefner and third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh, will not return in 2026, the team announced. Bench coach John Gibbons, a former manager himself, resigned following the Mets' historic collapse in which they went from the best team in baseball in June, to missing the postseason entirely .

Chavez joined the Mets in 2022 as Buck Showalter's bench coach, then joined Barnes as an assistant hitting coach upon Mendoza's arrival last year.

In 2025, the Mets boasted a top-10 offense in most categories (wRC+, average with runners in

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