CARLSBAD, Calif. -- The first full week of Brodie Van Wagenen's tenure as Mets general manager brought with it a potentially large coaching shakeup. The team is not retaining hitting coach Pat Roessler, according to a source, and is reassigning bullpen coach Ricky Bones elsewhere in the organization. In addition, the club is discussing replacing bench coach Gary DiSarcina and first-base coach Ruben Amaro Jr.
Roessler, 58, joined the Mets as an assistant hitting coach under Kevin Long in 2015. The team promoted him to hitting coach when Long left for the Nationals last offseason, but Roessler's Mets wound up ranking 23rd in the Majors in runs, 29th in batting average, 21st in on-base percentage and 26th in slugging.