Six Former Yankees Who Could be the Next Hitting Coach

Tino Martinez

Part of the greatest era of Yankees baseball of many of the new generation of Yankees fans. As a player, Tino never did anything extraordinary at the plate, but he simply did everything well. Every day. Every year. He was a guy that could hit .290, smash 30 home runs, drive in 120 and score 95 more. Plus, he played on a Yankees team that prided themselves on manufacturing runs, not just blasting home runs to score. He was a batter in a Yankees line-up that understood you get to a pitcher by taking pitches and wearing them down. He is perfect for what these Yankees need.

The problem is Tino failed miserably as a hitting coach last season for the Miami Marlins. He resigned halfway through the 2013 season after allegations of physical and verbal altercations with players. Now, while those Marlins finished with on of the worst offenses in major league history, let’s give Tino a break. That team was a minor league baseball team.

His best players aside from Giancarlo Stanton, like Christian Yelich and Marcell Ozuna, were barely in the bigs by the time he resigned. While you can say that this season’s 2014 Marlins improved incredibly after Martinez left, this season’s team barely resembled the offense he had last season. I think if Tino got another shot and something to work with, he could succeed.