Affiliate Hitting Coach

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:

The Player Development department is dedicated to fostering the comprehensive growth of our minor league players. Our mission is to excel in optimizing talent and skill development while aligning with player and team objectives. Our approach involves the creation of world class player programs and efficiently scaling them across our player pool. Collaborating closely with baseball analytics, performance, and medical, we establish effective frameworks for experimentation and learning. Additionally, we work closely with Amateur Scouting, International Scouting, and Pro Scouting to ensure seamless player transitions into the Red Sox organization.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Affiliate Hitting Coach will work closely with the Director, Hitting Development and necessary auxiliary staff to implement, execute, and track evidence-based offensive development. It is a uniformed position that will assist in the daily fulfillment of individual player plans.

As the Red Sox continue to build a team capable of being THE standard in player AND staff development, we are looking for candidates who are organized with uncompromising attention to detail, inquisitive, intellectually curious, data-driven, and open minded. Due to the nature of the role, the candidate must also possess strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork/leadership skills.

This position is seasonal, with full-time consideration for candidates with relevant experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES::
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Collaborate with Hitting Coordinator and Assistant Hitting Coach to create and implement daily hitting practice plans.

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Coordinate with Assistant Hitting Coach to organize the workday and maximize efficiency.

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Deliver Advanced Reports and Game Plans to hitters.

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Operate and utilize our tools including Blast Motion, HitTrax, Trajekt, internal software and others.

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Lead the hitting portion of Player Performance Meetings and report on hitter goal performance to the player and staff.

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Maintain consistent communication with the Coordinator, Hitting Development, Director, Hitting Development, and ML Hitting Coach in order to streamline the integration to players that are promoted or demoted.

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Attend and assist MLB Spring Training.

COMPETENCIES::
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Extensive experience evaluating and prescribing best-in-class drills to address deficiencies in each individual player.

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Able to develop programming towards organizationally defined KPI’s.

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Understanding of how to construct training environments that put position players in a position to improve skill and/or talent.

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Able to cultivate trust and player buy-in.

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Willing and able to use technology to maximize the effectiveness of programming.

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Able to develop key takeaways from large amounts of data to identify high leverage areas of development for each player.

In addition to the above requirements, all roles within Baseball Operations are expected to effectively demonstrate our universal competencies related to problem solving, teamwork, clarity of communication, and time management, along with embodying our culture of honesty, humility, relentlessness, and commitment to DEIB