After overseeing baseball’s high common season offense in 2025, Yankees hitting coach James Rowson is attracting curiosity from the Twins.
Minnesota is in search of a brand new skipper after going 70-92 this yr and firing Rocco Baldelli.
Rowson beforehand served because the Twins’ hitting coach from 2017-2019. The 2019 workforce set an MLB report with 307 dwelling runs, which the Braves tied in 2023.
As soon as a minor leaguer within the Yankees and Mariners’ techniques, Rowson has additionally held varied hitting-related jobs with the Tigers, Cubs and Angels. He spent three years because the Marlins’ bench coach below Yankee nice Don Mattingly from 2020-2022.
A Mount Vernon, New York native who went to highschool within the Bronx, Rowson served two teaching stints with the Yankees group previous to becoming a member of Aaron Boone’s workers earlier than the 2024 season. He was the Yankees’ minor league hitting coordinator from 2008-2011 and from 2014-2016. He additionally labored because the hitting coach for Single-A Tampa from 2006-2007.
With Rowson serving as the massive league hitting coach, the Yankees have ranked first in dwelling runs, on-base share, BB%, wRC+ and fWAR; second in slugging share and OPS; third in runs and RBI; and ninth in common over the past two seasons. In 2025, they ranked first in runs, dwelling runs, RBI, BB%, slugging, OPS, wRC+ and fWAR earlier than being eradicated from postseason play within the ALDS.
Charismatic and desirous to defend his gamers, Rowson is a well-liked determine within the Yankees’ clubhouse, the place he has tried to cater to hitters’ particular person preferences and located distinctive and enjoyable methods to disseminate the limitless quantities of data accessible to gamers. Aaron Decide has been a fan since their days within the Yankees’ minor league system, and Rowson beforehand coached Jazz Chisholm Jr. in Miami.
