To help fill the coaching staff of new manager Mickey Callaway, the Mets promoted Pat Roessler to make him the team’s new hitting coach, a person in baseball familiar with the situation confirmed.
The person did not want to be publicly identified because the move was not yet official.
Roessler, 57, had been the Mets’ assistant hitting coach since the start of the 2015 season. He is a longtime hitting instructor who has held similar positions in other organizations, and had strong relationships with various Mets players.
He succeeded Kevin Long, the Mets’ hitting coach for the past three seasons, who, along with Roessler, helped Daniel Murphy develop into an elite hitter.