MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand was first to report on Friday that Washington’s Nationals and Darnell Coles were working on a deal to bring the one-time coach and manager in the organization back into the fold as the big league hitting coach.
Coles, 59, is a 14-year veteran in the majors who transitioned into coaching after his playing career in the U.S. and Japan ended in 1997.
Hired as a roving hitting instructor in the Nationals’ system in 2006, Coles moved around in the organization, coaching and managing with several affiliates before leaving and going on to work in the Milwaukee Brewers’ system, working as a hitting instructor before he left for a job as an assistant hitting coach with the Detroit Tigers in 2014.