Troy Snitker set to join Mets as hitting coach (source)

NEW YORK -- The Mets made another significant staff addition on Monday, bringing on Troy Snitker as hitting coach, according to a source. The club has not confirmed the news.

Snitker, 36, will serve under Jeff Albert, the team's recently promoted director of hitting. In tandem, those two will replace Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes, the Mets' co-hitting coaches last season.

The son of former Braves manager Brian Snitker, Troy Snitker has spent the past seven seasons as one of Houston's hitting coaches. He won a World Series with the Astros in 2022, but the team declined to renew his contract after an injury-ravaged 2025 campaign that saw them lose superstar Yordan Alvarez for much of the season.

In New York, Snitker and Albert will work to improve an offense that finished sixth in the Majors in OPS (.753) and tied for ninth in runs per game (4.73).

Snitker, Albert and bench coach Kai Correa are the three new members of manager Carlos Mendoza's staff so far. The team still must replace pitching coach Jeremy Hefner and assistant pitching coach Desi Druschel, who is reportedly returning to the Yankees. The Mets also must replace third-base coach Mike Sarbaugh and catching instructor Glenn Sherlock. The majority of Mendoza's coaching staff will be different next season.

According to a source, the Mets are not close on any other hires.

One other remaining area of intrigue is incumbent first-base coach Antoan Richardson, one of the only uniformed coaches the Mets did invite back. A source said Monday that Richardson and the team are not close to agreeing on a new contract and that Richardson is likely to leave the organization, which would create another hole on Mendoza's staff.

Juan Soto is among those who have widely credited Richardson for improving the team's basestealing.