The Seattle Mariners fired bench coach and offensive coordinator Brant Brown earlier than their sequence opener towards the Los Angeles Angels, the group introduced Friday afternoon.
Regardless of sitting in first place within the American League East, the Mariners haven’t lived as much as their expectations on the plate and are hoping {that a} change will do them some good. Brown was introduced in after a profitable 2023 season with the Miami Marlins however the Mariners entered Friday main baseball with 594 strikeouts by means of their first 58 video games, which places them on tempo to interrupt MLB’s single-season document set final yr by the Minnesota Twins.
Seattle additionally ranked twenty ninth (211) in runs scored, twenty eighth in batting common (.221), twenty fifth in slugging (.361), and twenty fourth in wRC+ (94).
“Clearly we’ve had some struggles on the offensive facet,” Mariners supervisor Scott Servais mentioned earlier than Friday’s recreation. “It’s not all Brant’s fault by any means. It’s simply (that we) wish to make a change there, possibly a bit completely different voice with our gamers, and we actually must get our guys targeted again into doing what they do greatest.”
Brown’s ties to Seattle return a number of years. He served because the membership’s minor league outfield coordinator (2012-16) and the offensive coordinator within the participant growth system (2017). He moved on to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2018 as an assistant hitting coach (2018-19) after which hitting coach (2020-22).
Servais mentioned that director of hitting technique Jarret DeHart and assistant hitting coach Tommy Joseph will tackle elevated duties.
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