The Blue Jays are hiring Lou Iannotti to John Schneider’s teaching employees, experiences TSN’s Scott Mitchell (X hyperlink). Mitchell suggests Iannotti is more likely to take an assistant hitting coach position underneath first-year hitting teacher David Popkins.
Iannotti, 32, had been with the Dodgers as a minor league hitting coordinator. A collegiate catcher at Quinnipiac, he had a really temporary stint as an expert participant within the unbiased Frontier League. Iannotti rapidly moved into teaching within the lowest ranges of the Dodgers’ minor league system. He labored his means as much as hitting coach for L.A.’s Double-A affiliate earlier than touchdown the coordinator position that allowed him to supervise a number of minor league ranges. This’ll be his first work on an MLB teaching employees.
The Jays have already got Hunter Mense on employees as an assistant hitting coach. He’s a holdover from earlier years. The Jays in any other case made modifications to their offensive employees. Toronto fired earlier hitting coach Guillermo Martinez on the finish of the season. Don Mattingly, who’d served as offensive coordinator along with bench coach, will solely have conventional bench coach tasks with Popkins approaching as hitting coach.
