The Mets made significant headway in reconstructing their gutted coaching staff Tuesday, hiring a new bench coach and promoting from within to fill the role of hitting coach, sources said.

Kai Correa, most recently the Guardians’ field coordinator and coach of defense, baserunning and game strategy, will be manager Carlos Mendoza’s second in command. He assumes the bench coach role vacated by John Gibbons, who resigned as part of the Mets’ massive coaching reconstruction earlier this month.

Jeff Albert, who’s served as the organization’s director of hitting development for the last two years, will lead the major-league club’s hitting program; it’s likely the Mets will also hire an additional hitting coach. Albert, who has a background in physiology and biomechanics, will partially take o

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