The Seattle Mariners hired MLB Hall of Famer Edgar Martinez to join new manager Dan Wilson's staff as a hitting coach.
SEATTLE — Former Seattle Mariners catcher and team Hall of Famer Dan Wilson took on the latest of many hats he's worn with the franchise starting on Thursday when he was named the new manager.
Wilson was on Seattle's 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2001 playoff teams. And one of his former teammates on those teams, 2019 National Baseball Hall of Famer Edgar Martinez, also was named to a new role within the organization. Martinez had had several roles with the team since his retirement. He was previously the hitting coach for the team from 2015-2018. Under his coaching in 2015, the team's batting average improved from .232 in the first 68 games of the season to .260 in the the last 94 games of the year. He moved to a hitting advisor role after the 2018 season.
"I think there's no one I trust more with hitters than Edgar," Wilson said. "The thing about Edgar that I think a lot of people don't understand is that he was a tremendous hitter. He just had tremendous talent. But that's not all he had. He studies hitting, he's a student of hitting. And he can break it down better than anybody. And I think that was the first thought that came to my mind. I know he's familiar with a lot of these guys.
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