The Mets are hiring Troy Snitker to serve as their next hitting coach, according to a report from Andy Martino of SNY.
Snitker, 36, is the son of former Braves manager Brian Snitker. Drafted in the 19th round of the 2011 draft by Atlanta, he spent three seasons catching in the minors for the organization. After retiring as a player, he joined the Astros organization as a hitting coach for the club’s Double-A affiliate in Corpus Christi before being promoted to the big league staff prior to the 2019 season.
Snitker spent seven seasons as a hitting coach for the Astros and won a World Series with the club in 2022. He was among a number of coaches and front office staff the team parted ways with following a disappointing 2025 season where Houston missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Even with last year’s playoff loss, it’s hard not to be impressed by the Astros’ offense during Snitker’s tenure with the club. The team hit .259/.329/.435 during his tenure, with the second-highest wRC+ (111) behind the Dodgers and the lowest strikeout rate in the majors.
He didn’t wait long to find his next position, as he’s now joining the Mets following their own overhaul of their coaching staff following a frustrating 2025 campaign where they narrowly missed the playoffs themselves. New York already brought in Jeff Albert to run the team’s hitting program in 2026, and Snitker will work under Albert in that regard. Together, Albert and Snitker will be tasked with reworking a hitting program that performed well overall, with a 112 wRC+ that ranked fifth in baseball in 2025.
Much of that production was thanks to stars Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and Francisco Lindor, however, and disappointing seasons from young members of the team’s supporting cast like Mark Vientos and Luisangel Acuna suggest there could be some room for improvement when it comes to the development side of things. That’s something Snitker could help with, seeing as his time in the organization coincided with the development of Astros stars like Yordan Alvarez, Kyle Tucker, and Jeremy Pena.
Just get players who dont suck
Instead of hiring coaches to perform miracles
Vientos and Acuna are not Tucker or Alvarez. Very few are…
Snit Jr. came to the Asterisks after trash can scandal was over. Team on base and OPS was higher in 2019 than the prior two years. Give him a try.
*Asterisks!
Can’t reply directly to chandlerbing because he can’t handle being corrected, but “get players who don’t suck” is hilarious considering the Mets had a 113 OPS+ *as a team*.
I think chandlerbing spends literally all day refreshing this page so he can squirt out foolish, troll-level comments on every article.
Didnt say he’s not a good coach
Im sayin mets need to do better signing/acquiring/developing depth & role players
Tyrone,Vientos, acuna, mauricio, mcneil, marte were garbage this yr. Mets were content with that. Thats why they failed. not bec they didnt have the right hitting coach
LOL good luck from an Astros fan… you’ll need it.
I wouldn’t judge him too harshly on his time in Houston, the ghost of Ted Williams couldn’t teach those scrubs how to hit
There is no evidence that hitting coaches make any difference. For every player we suddenly hear has made some change resulting in greatness because of a hitting coach, we see a player get worse. It is objectively impossible to determine if any particular coach matters. Just pick someone the players like and create a team wide placebo impact
Why even have hitting coaches?
I mean facts exist. How mets changed to a fly ball pull approach you can see underlying metrics change for players and results are worse.
Bang the drum for the new hitting coach! :)
Wonder if Beltran put in the good word for him with Cohen and Stearns.
He was hired in 2019 since you can’t count apparently
I guess not! It’s like what Joe Garagiola recounted about Yogi in school where a teacher supposedly said “Yogi, don’t you know anything?” and it is claimed he said “I don’t even suspect anything.”
That’s me and math. We have long-time issues.
But yes…. and you got the joke in my snarky comment even though I screwed up the timeline!
Juan Soto is the best hitting coach. Players should learn from him .
Can’t be any worse than the idea of Manny Ramirez being a hitting coach.
A nepo-Snitker! Who’da thunk it?
Can we hire his dad to be our manager? Menbozo needs to go. His pulling of starters too early and terrible bullpen management costed us the season