Las Vegas 51’s hitting coach George Greer has been hired by the St. Louis Cardinals a source told ESPN New York’s Adam Rubin this evening. It is not yet known what position Greer will hold with the Cardinals.
Former major leaguer John Mabry is currently the Cardinals hitting coach and was recently praised by manager Mike Matheny.
“John Mabry seemed to take a lot of heat as we were pushing through the season” he told Jenifer Langosch of MLB.com earlier this month.
“Some of those results weren’t there, which is really ridiculous. Fortunately, he stayed with what he knew was right, and the guys continued to work to improve and nobody was doing the major overhauls, like we were talking about, for no reason, just to appease people in the outside.”
Greer has spent eight seasons with the Mets and just finished his second year as the AAA hitting instructor. He previously served in other positions within the system at lower levels.
