The Mets have a new hitting coach.

On Tuesday, Jeff Passan of ESPN reported that the Mets have promoted from within to fill the vacancies left by the recently fired hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez.

“New York Mets director of hitting development Jeff Albert will be in charge of the major league team’s hitting program in 2026, sources tell ESPN,” Passan writes, via X/Twitter. “Albert will be in uniform and help fill the void left by the firings of hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez.”

Albert, 44, previously served as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hitting coach between 2019 and 2022. In 2023, he joined the Mets as director of hitting development.

He got his coaching career started in the Cardinals’ minor league system in 2008 before helping the Houston Astros’ minor

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