The Mets are hiring Troy Snitker as their next hitting coach, according to reporting by Andy Martino of SNY. The team has not yet confirmed this news.
The 36-year-old Snitker is the son of former Braves
manager Brian Snitker and has served as a hitting coach in Houston with the Astros for the past seven seasons, including a championship season in 2022. Snitker’s contract with the Astros expired this offseason and was not renewed after a disappointing 2025 campaign in Houston.
Snitker will serve under Jeff Albert, who was recently promoted to director of hitting on the major league side after serving in a similar role for the Mets in the minor leagues. This scheme will replace the duo of Eric Chavez and Jeremy Barnes, who were co-hitting coaches under Carlos Mendoza last season and were let go as part of a massive overhaul of the coaching staff in the wake of a 2025 season in which the Mets fell short of expectations and missed the playoffs. The 2025 Mets’ problems were many, but among them were the fact that the Mets were fourth in baseball in offensive fWAR, but tenth in runs scored—an indication that the offense did not produce as many runs as expected on paper.
Snitker and Albert join new bench coach Kai Correa as the first three members of Carlos Mendoza’s new look coaching staff. The Mets still have a number of hires to make to fill out their coaching staff—most notably a replacement for pitching coach Jeremy Hefner—but are not yet close on any other hires, according to reports.
