Two of the longest tenured coaches for the Tampa Bay Rays, bench coach Tom Foley, pitching coach Jim Hickey and assistant hitting coach will not be part of manager Kevin Cash’s coaching staff in 2018.
Changes began on Monday with the news of Foley and on Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Rays followed that up with the Hickey and Nelson. Not long after the Rays made the announcement of these changes, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reported that Kyle Snyder, pitching coach of the Durham Bulls would replace Hickey and the current third base coach Charlie Montoyo will replace Foley as the bench coach.