Some of the familiar faces beside manager Scott Servais on the Seattle Mariners bench won’t be there next season, including hitting coach Edgar Martinez and pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr.
Now he’ll rely on Paul Davis and Tim Laker.
The Mariners completed their coaching staff overhaul announcing on Monday that they have hired Laker from the Arizona Diamondbacks as their next hitting coach to replace Martinez, who asked to transition to a new role as the club’s organizational hitting advisor.
Laker spent the past two seasons as the Diamondbacks’ assistant hitting coach. This will be his first season as the top hitting coach for a big-league club, though he served that role with the Indians at Double-A Akron in 2016.