The Twins announced their finalized coaching staff Thursday, including three new hires: assistant hitting coaches Trevor Amicone and Rayden Sierra, and first base/infield coach Ramon Borrego. Former first base/catching coach Hank Conger is now the team’s assistant bench coach and catching coach.
Amicone comes to the Twins from the Yankees organization. He’s spent the past five seasons there, breaking into professional coaching as an instructor at their alternate site in 2020 and spending the 2021-22 seasons as a hitting coach with the Yankees’ affiliates in the Dominican Summer League. He’s been the hitting coach for the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders for the past two seasons. He’ll serve as the Twins’ No. 2 hitting coach behind Matt Borgschulte, whom the Twins hired away from the Orioles earlier this offseason. (Borgschulte had been a coach in the Twins’ minor league ranks prior to his time in Baltimore.)
Both Sierra and Borrego were in-house minor league coaches who are now joining the big league staff. Sierra has spent the past five seasons in a variety of roles within the system. He’s been a hitting coach in Class-A Fort Myers, served as an assistant hitting and development coach, and spent the 2024 season as the Twins’ assistant minor league hitting coordinator. Borrego has been with the Twins for more than two decades, including 14 seasons as a manager. He’s been managing the Twins’ Double-A affiliate since 2019 and thus has an existing relationship with a number of Minnesota’s homegrown players, including Royce Lewis, Jose Miranda, Matt Wallner, Edouard Julien, Jhoan Duran, Griffin Jax and others. He was also a coach on Venezuela’s staff in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
That trio will work with manager Rocco Baldelli, bench coach Jayce Tingler, Borgschulte, pitching coach Pete Maki, bullpen coach Colby Suggs, third base/outfield coach Tommy Watkins, assistant pitching coach Luis Ramirez and quality control coach Nate Dammann for the 2025 season.
I like when teams have coaches like a hitting coach who couldn’t hit for average
Ahh. Conger. There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Hope he does well in MN.
He’s been in Minnesota for at least a year or two and has been doing well, in my opinion.
Conger line of mediocrity
How does Tommy “Wave ‘Em Home, Ope, Wait, Just Kidding, Stop At Third” Watkins still have a job? Does he have incriminating photos of the Twins org?
For real. Watching games you notice his mistakes as much as position players. I know his been with the organization for a long time, so keep him around somehow, but he should not be the 3rd base coach anymore!
Came here to ask the same question
Weird ass Twins do weird
12 man coaching staff for 26 man roster…
How did Toby Gardenhire get overlooked for an opportunity to be on this staff??? Makes you wonder even more about the capabilities of this front office.
Mayb cuz he hails from douchie bloodlines.
The Yankees AAA staff is getting torn apart like a team that had two hot coordinators and they went to the Super Bowl. I hope the RailRiders will be alright with losing their pitching coach and hitting coach all in a week
Coaches come n go. Will always be the weird ass Minnesota Twins