Darnell Coles, 59, spent the past three seasons as the hitting coach for the Arizona D-backs, and before that the 14-year major league veteran, who was a teammate of Dave Martinez in 1992 with the Cincinnati Reds, and was a member of the World Series champion Toronto Blue Jays in 1993, was the hitting coach for the Milwaukee Brewers between 2015-18, after serving as the assistant hitting coach for the Detroit Tigers in 2014, in his first job in the big leagues.