Tim Hyers, the Texas Rangers’ hitting coach for the 2022-24 seasons, has joined the Atlanta Braves as their new hitting coach, it was announced today.
The Rangers had previously indicated that they anticipated all their major league staff returning for the 2025 season, so this does not seem to be an instance of Hyers being forced out. Per the beat folks, this is an opportunity for Hyers, an Atlanta native, to be closer to his family.
One of the interesting things about the 2024 season, to me, was that the one team that was clearly better offensively than the Texas Rangers in 2023 was the Atlanta Braves, and they had an even bigger (relative) drop in performance from 2023 to 2024 than the Rangers did.