The Twins introduced their finalized teaching employees Thursday, together with three new hires: assistant hitting coach Trevor Amicone, first base/infield coach Ramon Borrego and co-hitting coach Rayden Sierra. Former first base/catching coach Hank Conger is now the crew’s assistant bench coach (and can proceed working with the catching corps).
Amicone involves the Twins from the Yankees group. He’s spent the previous 5 seasons there, breaking into skilled teaching as an teacher at their alternate website in 2020 and spending the 2021-22 seasons as a hitting coach with the Yankees’ associates within the Dominican Summer season League. He’s been the hitting coach for the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders for the previous two seasons.
Each Sierra and Borrego have been in-house minor league coaches who are actually becoming a member of the massive league employees. Sierra has spent the previous 5 seasons in quite a lot of roles throughout the system. He’s been a hitting coach in Class-A Fort Myers, served as an assistant hitting and growth coach, and spent the 2024 season because the Twins’ assistant minor league hitting coordinator. Borrego has been with the Twins for greater than twenty years, together with 14 seasons as a supervisor. He’s been managing the Twins’ Double-A affiliate since 2019 and thus has an present relationship with a variety of Minnesota’s homegrown gamers, together with Royce Lewis, Jose Miranda, Matt Wallner, Edouard Julien, Jhoan Duran, Griffin Jax and others. He was additionally a coach on Venezuela’s employees within the 2023 World Baseball Basic.
That trio will work with supervisor Rocco Baldelli, bench coach Jayce Tingler, co-hitting coach Matt Borgschulte (one other new rent this offseason), pitching coach Pete Maki, bullpen coach Colby Suggs, third base/outfield coach Tommy Watkins, assistant pitching coach Luis Ramirez and high quality management coach Nate Dammann for the 2025 season.
