{"id":440018,"date":"2023-11-14T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=440018"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:09:52","slug":"james-rowson-back-with-yankees-as-hitting-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/james-rowson-back-with-yankees-as-hitting-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"James Rowson Back With Yankees As Hitting Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees, who had one of the worst offences in the majors last season, named James Rowson as their new hitting instructor on Monday.<\/p>\n<h2>James Rowson Back With Yankees As Hitting Coach<\/h2>\n<p>Rowson takes over for Sean Casey, who was brought in midseason after the Yankees dismissed Dillon Lawson at the All-Star break, but stated last month that he would not be coming back for family reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Sensing that the budding slugger was headed for greatness, James Rowson, who had been the Yankees&#8217; Minor League hitting coordinator in the past, developed a positive rapport with a young Aaron Judge.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Rowson was asked about balancing old-school ideologies with new-age analytics as a hitting coach:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m not old school. I&#39;m not new school. I&#39;m in school.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ong6GHeLVz\">pic.twitter.com\/ong6GHeLVz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snyyankees\/status\/1724462764922466807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This season, Rowson and Judge will have the chance to collaborate once more. As the Yankees&#8217; big league hitting instructor, Rowson has returned to the organization, the team announced on Monday. Sean Casey, who played the part for a full season before deciding not to come back, is replaced by Rowson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always wanted to know, \u2018Why?\u2019 Which I think is the most important question that a young hitter can ask,\u201d Rowson once said. \u201cAny time you\u2019re making adjustments or you\u2019re talking about the game, it was like, \u2018Hey, tell me why you want to do that?\u2019 When guys ask that question, you really know that they\u2019re going to make it their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The New York Yankees today announced that James Rowson has been named the club\u2019s hitting coach. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XqRgr9kNQ5\">pic.twitter.com\/XqRgr9kNQ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Yankees (@Yankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yankees\/status\/1724142075971588414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was New York&#8217;s first in-season coaching move since Nardi Contreras took Billy Connors&#8217; pitching coaching job in July 1995 when Dillon Lawson was sacked at the All-Star break following a season and a half as hitting coach. Sean Casey took Lawson&#8217;s position after he made the decision not to return for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Rowson, 47, served as Class A Tampa&#8217;s hitting coach in 2006 and 2007. The Yankees employed him as their minor league hitting coordinator from 2008 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2016, during which time Judge advanced through the farm system.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Rowson says he&#39;s exchanged text messages with Giancarlo Stanton:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#39;m excited about him, I hope he&#39;s looking forward to it. We&#39;ll sit down, we&#39;ll talk, and then we&#39;ll kind of go from there.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GfEdSkkRLj\">pic.twitter.com\/GfEdSkkRLj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snyyankees\/status\/1724460139799777658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rowson, who served as the Tigers&#8217; assistant hitting coach last season, will be in his tenth season as a big league coach in 2024. After serving as the Twins&#8217; hitting coach for three years (2017\u201319), Rowson was the Marlins&#8217; bench coach from 2020\u201322.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins were fourth in the Majors in runs scored (2,492), fifth in batting average (.260) and slugging percentage (.445), sixth in on-base percentage (.775), and seventh in home runs (679) during Rowson&#8217;s tenure with the team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I kind of get to know players and play to their strengths.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>James Rowson describes his hitting philosophy and how he tries to get through to players: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HOalGd2E21\">pic.twitter.com\/HOalGd2E21<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yankees Videos (@snyyankees) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snyyankees\/status\/1724458536623603952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rowson&#8217;s first priority will be to get a veteran like Giancarlo Stanton back on track, but the Yankees will also be looking to him to assist their younger hitters in advancing to the next level of their major league careers.<\/p>\n<p>It will also be crucial to see how successfully Rowson connects and communicates with his batters since this was Lawson&#8217;s undoing after he took over as the team&#8217;s minor league hitting coordinator prior to becoming the helm in 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Yankees?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Yankees<\/a> have named James Rowson as their hitting coach: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OS7sKnLZZN\">pic.twitter.com\/OS7sKnLZZN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bryan Hoch \u26be\ufe0f (@BryanHoch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/1724141602354913311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This season, New York&#8217;s batting average of.227 is the third lowest in Yankees history, behind.214 in 1968 and.225 in 1967, and it is only surpassed by Oakland&#8217;s.223. The Yankees, who finished 82-80, narrowly escaped having their first losing season since 1992 and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Season was dubbed &#8220;a disaster&#8221; by general manager Brian Cashman and &#8220;awful&#8221; by owner Hal Steinbrenner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MLB Report: Shohei Ohtani To Surpass Current Average Annual Value Record With A Short-Term Deal?\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/mlb-rumors-shohei-ohtani-to-surpass-current-average-annual-value-record-with-a-short-term-deal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MLB Report: Shohei Ohtani To Surpass Current Average Annual Value Record With A Short-Term Deal?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees, who had one of the worst offences in the majors last season, named James Rowson as their new hitting instructor on Monday. James Rowson Back With Yankees As Hitting Coach Rowson takes over for Sean Casey, who was brought in midseason after the Yankees dismissed Dillon Lawson at the All-Star break, but stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":440019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,117],"tags":[18888,18890,18889,2221,18891,3957],"class_list":["post-440018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-new-york-yankees","tag-james-rowson","tag-james-rowson-hitting-coach","tag-james-rowson-news","tag-mlb-news","tag-yankees-james-rowson","tag-yankees-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}