The Red Sox have named John Soteropulos as assistant hitting coach. reports Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic. Soteropulos had been minor league hitting coordinator since 2023. Before joining the Boston organization, Soteropulos coached at Driveline Baseball.
McCaffrey adds that during his time as a hitting coordinator, Soteropulos worked with minor leaguers to increase bat speed and exit velocity. That group included top prospect Kristian Campbell, Roman AnthonyAnd Marcelo Mayer. The trio debuted in 2025, with mixed results.
Campbell brought the team out of camp. He hit .301 through April and then fell off a cliff in May, hitting .134. He continued to wrestle in June and found himself back in the minors. Mayer got the call in late May. He showed great power, although it came with strikeout problems. A wrist injury ended his season in July. Anthony had by far the most success of the bunch. He joined the top-flight club a few weeks after Mayer. Anthony shook off the sluggish June and put together a huge July and August. He posted a .920 OPS and a 156 wRC+ from early July through the first week of September, when he injured his oblique. The tension would end his season.
Boston’s hitting coach is Pete Fatse. He joined the team in 2020 as an assistant hitting coach before being promoted to the main job in 2022. Dillon Lawson also joins the staff as an assistant hitting coach. He served as the hitting coach for the Yankees from 2022 to mid-2023.
Add Soteropulos to the growing list of employees to make the leap from Driveline to large organizations. Driveline founder Kyle Boddy spent time with multiple teams, including as a consultant with the Red Sox. Eric Jagers, the company’s former Technical Development Manager, is currently the Mets’ Vice President of Pitching. Sam Briend, who led Driveline’s pitching development program in Seattle, has been the Yankees’ Senior Director of Pitching since 2019.
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