Rangers Hire Tommy Joseph to Join Hitting Staff for 2027
The Texas Rangers are bringing in Tommy Joseph as an assistant hitting coach under lead hitting instructor Justin Viele. The move comes as Texas seeks to revitalize an offense that struggled near the bottom of Major League Baseball in scoring.
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Key points
- Tommy Joseph joins the Texas Rangers as an assistant hitting coach under Justin Viele.
- Joseph previously held major league assistant hitting roles with Seattle and Baltimore.
- Texas ranked 25th in total scoring last season and is aiming for better collective output in 2027.
The Texas Rangers are continuing to tweak their technical staff ahead of the 2027 season, agreeing to hire Tommy Joseph as an assistant hitting coach. Joseph will work directly beneath lead hitting coach Justin Viele as part of manager Skip Schumaker's staff, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.
Joseph arrives with a diverse coaching background despite entering the ranks relatively recently in 2021. After initial minor league hitting stints with the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants, he transitioned to the majors in 2024 as an assistant hitting coach for the Seattle Mariners before serving in the same capacity with the Baltimore Orioles. He will join returning assistant Eric Dorton on the Texas staff.
The coaching addition comes after a sluggish year at the plate for Texas. The club ranked 25th in run production and 20th in team OPS last season. While front office executive Chris Young acknowledged progress under Viele's direction in 2026, he emphasized that individual gains must translate into overall scoring capability for the roster to succeed.
"I think he’s done very good things," Young said regarding Viele's leadership. "It didn’t perfectly translate to the run production we needed last year, but, there were improvements offensively in the overall performance. Now we’ve got to translate that individually to the collective and our ability to score runs as a collective group."
Texas expects to retain most of its existing lineup for the upcoming campaign, though free agent Joc Pederson will not return. Key contributors Corey Seager, Wyatt Langford, and Josh Jung are slated to return to health, while top prospect Sebastian Walcott could make an impact after rehabbing from elbow surgery.
Source MLB Trade Rumors — mlbtraderumors.com/2026/11/rangers-to-hire-tommy-joseph-as-assistan… ↗
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