After conducting interviews throughout November, the Cincinnati Reds hired Joel McKeithan as their assistant hitting coach and finalized their Major League coaching staff for the 2022 season Monday.
McKeithan, 30, spent one season as the Detroit Tigers’ minor-league hitting coordinator before joining the Reds. He was a minor-league hitting coach in the Philadelphia Phillies farm system in 2019 and he has a background from the data-driven Driveline facility as a player and a coach.
The Reds were searching for an assistant hitting coach after Joe Mather was hired as the lead hitting coach by the Arizona Diamondbacks.