The Purple Sox introduced that Dillon Lawson has been promoted to the position of assistant hitting coach. Lawson had been with the Sox for the final 12 months because the membership’s minor league hitting coordinator, and he’ll now take over the position left open by Luis Ortiz, who was one among six coaches Boston introduced wouldn’t be returning for the 2025 season. Final week, MassLive.com’s Sean McAdam advised that Lawson was seen as a logical candidate for the assistant hitting coach job.
This might be Lawson’s second stint on an enormous league teaching workers, after his earlier job because the Yankees’ hitting coach for the 2022 season and the primary half of the 2023 season. Considerably infamously, Lawson turned the primary coach longtime Yankees GM Brian Cashman ever fired partway by a season, as Cashman put in former MLB veteran Sean Casey as New York’s new hitting coach because the crew resumed play after the All-Star break. The change didn’t work, because the Yankees truly had a decrease wRC+ (92) underneath Casey than underneath Lawson (96).
The 39-year-old Lawson had an extended teaching profession in school ball, together with a 12 months because the College of Missouri’s hitting coach in 2017 that was sandwiched between his first two jobs with a Main League crew. Lawson labored as a hitting coach for 2 separate Astros Single-A associates in 2016 and 2018, after which moved on to hitch the Yankees as a minor league hitting coordinator for the 2019-21 seasons.
Peter Fatse is Boston’s lead hitting coach, with Ben Rosenthal and now Lawson appearing as assistants. The Purple Sox ranked within the high ten in most offensive classes in 2024, although a team-wide droop over the past six weeks of the season curtailed Boston’s late bid for a wild card spot.
