The Orioles are selling Sherman Johnson to the key league teaching employees, writes Andy Kostka of the Baltimore Banner. The 34-year-old will work alongside hitting coach Cody Asche and assistant hitting coach Tommy Joseph on the offensive facet. Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com urged this morning {that a} promotion for Johnson may very well be within the playing cards.
It’ll be Johnson’s first work on an MLB employees. He has moved in a short time up the teaching ranks. He was taking part in professionally within the unbiased American Affiliation as just lately as 2022. A Florida State product, he had a nine-year minor league profession. Johnson briefly reached the large leagues as a member of the Angels in 2018. He went hitless in 10 at-bats. A lefty batter, he confirmed good plate self-discipline with minimal energy within the minors.
Johnson didn’t transfer into teaching till 2023. Baltimore employed him as a hitting teacher with their Double-A group in Bowie. He spent this previous season as a minor league hitting coordinator. It appears he constructed a fast rapport with a variety of the O’s prospects. Johnson coached Jackson Holliday, Heston Kjerstad and Coby Mayo with Bowie and will get to work with them once more at Camden Yards.
Baltimore has opted for a reasonably inexperienced group of hitting instructors. Asche, additionally 34, is a lead hitting coach for the primary time after two years as an assistant on Brandon Hyde’s employees. Joseph, 33, goes into his second season as an MLB coach. He spent this 12 months with the Mariners in an assistant function.
