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Hyers goes from having the same position with the Rangers to taking the job with his hometown team. Exactly two weeks after the Atlanta Braves fired hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, the team has found its replacement for that role. The Braves have gone outside of the organization and hired away a hitting coach from another team — the 2023 World Series champions, in fact.
The Braves just announced that they’ve hired Tim Hyers as their new hitting coach, effective immediately.
The Atlanta #Braves today announced the organization has hired Tim Hyers to the major league coaching staff as hitting coach. pic.twitter.com/j4RnnNuu3k— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) October 24, 2024
Tim Hyers is an Atlanta native who grew up in the metro area, so this is a bit of a homecoming for the hitting coach who has served in that role for two teams now. His first role as a coach came as an assistant hitting coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2016 through 2017 and his first stint as a hitting coach was with the Boston Red Sox from 2018 through 2021, which included a World Series title with the Red Sox in 2018. He then joined the Texas Rangers ahead of the 2022 season and became a two-time World Series champion when the Rangers won it all in 2023.
In 2018, the Red Sox had the fourth-best team wRC+ in all of baseball, which turned into sixth-best in 2019, 11th-best in 2020 and sixth-best again in his final season in Boston in 2021. Following that, he was at the head of a major turnaround for Texas’s offense which saw the Rangers go from having the 20th-best team wRC+ at 98 to having the third-best wRC+ in all of baseball at 116 during their World Series-winning season. With that being said, the Rangers did go back down to having the 22nd-best team wRC+ here in 2024, so there’s that.
According to a press release from the Braves, Hyers has coached 12 Silver Sluggers throughout his career and was also the hitting coach who oversaw the Rangers winning the inaugural Team Silver Slugger award in 2023.
With all of that being said, Tim Hyers does have a track record, the hardware and the rings to show that he probably has a very solid idea of what he’s doing. The Braves themselves are clearly looking to bounce back to the lofty standards that their lineup has set for themselves over the years and it’s apparent that they believe Hyers will be the one to help orchestrate a return to form at the plate.
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Photo by Cooper Neill/MLB Photos via Getty Images
Hyers goes from having the same position with the Rangers to taking the job with his hometown team. Exactly two weeks after the Atlanta Braves fired hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, the team has found its replacement for that role. The Braves have gone outside of the organization and hired away a hitting coach from another team — the 2023 World Series champions, in fact.
The Braves just announced that they’ve hired Tim Hyers as their new hitting coach, effective immediately.
The Atlanta #Braves today announced the organization has hired Tim Hyers to the major league coaching staff as hitting coach. pic.twitter.com/j4RnnNuu3k— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) October 24, 2024
Tim Hyers is an Atlanta native who grew up in the metro area, so this is a bit of a homecoming for the hitting coach who has served in that role for two teams now. His first role as a coach came as an assistant hitting coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2016 through 2017 and his first stint as a hitting coach was with the Boston Red Sox from 2018 through 2021, which included a World Series title with the Red Sox in 2018. He then joined the Texas Rangers ahead of the 2022 season and became a two-time World Series champion when the Rangers won it all in 2023.
In 2018, the Red Sox had the fourth-best team wRC+ in all of baseball, which turned into sixth-best in 2019, 11th-best in 2020 and sixth-best again in his final season in Boston in 2021. Following that, he was at the head of a major turnaround for Texas’s offense which saw the Rangers go from having the 20th-best team wRC+ at 98 to having the third-best wRC+ in all of baseball at 116 during their World Series-winning season. With that being said, the Rangers did go back down to having the 22nd-best team wRC+ here in 2024, so there’s that.
According to a press release from the Braves, Hyers has coached 12 Silver Sluggers throughout his career and was also the hitting coach who oversaw the Rangers winning the inaugural Team Silver Slugger award in 2023.
With all of that being said, Tim Hyers does have a track record, the hardware and the rings to show that he probably has a very solid idea of what he’s doing. The Braves themselves are clearly looking to bounce back to the lofty standards that their lineup has set for themselves over the years and it’s apparent that they believe Hyers will be the one to help orchestrate a return to form at the plate.
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