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 Maj

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