Having let go of almost all of their coaching staff following a disappointing season, the Mets have made their first move to fill a vacancy on the hitting coach side of things. Jeff Albert, who has served as the Mets’ director of hitting development since late 2022, will head up the team’s major league hitting program, per Jeff Passan. And while the wording of the news seems to deliberately not refer to him as the team’s hitting coach, he will be in uniform, serving as part of the uniformed replacement for Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes.

Mets hitters finished fifth in baseball with a 112 wRC+ in the 2025 season, but their 766 runs scored ranked just tenth in the game. That’s still not terrible, but the lineup had a hard time putting up consistent performances and often struggled to drive i

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