The Mets have fired hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Tom Slater after the team’s 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium on Monday.

Hugh Quattlebaum will take over as the team’s hitting coach, and Kevin Howard has been tabbed as the team’s assistant hitting coach. Both men will be in St. Louis with the team on Tuesday.

New York, which is 11-12 to begin the season, has hung in there largely due to strong pitching, but on the offensive side have largely struggled.

The team ranks No. 27 in the league with a .364 slugging percentage, No. 21 with a .686 OPS and dead last with only 17 home runs. Digging even deeper, their team wRC+ of 95 ranks No. 17 in baseball, their collective 1.8 fWAR is No. 27, and their .122 ISO is dead last.

Davis, 61, was hired by the Mets during their previous regime prior to the 2019 season. Last year during the shortened 2020 campaign, Davis was away from the team due to concerns of COVID-19.

Slater, 53, had served as the Mets’ assistant hitting coach since 2018 at the time of his dismissal. He had previously coached in the New York Yankees organization.

According to a team press release:

Quattlebaum, 42, joined the Mets organization this offseason as the minor league director of hitting development. He had spent the previous three seasons with Seattle. Quattlebaum was the Mariners’ minor league hitting coordinator in 2018-2019 and was the assistant hitting coach with the Major League team during 2020.

Prior to working with the Mariners, he was coaching and consulting in Southern California. Quattlebaum was drafted by Detroit in the 25th round of the 2000 First-Year Player Draft from Amherst College (MA). He spent four years in the Tigers (2000-2002) and Orioles (2003) minor league systems.

Howard, 39, joined the Mets this year as the organization’s director of player development. He spent the previous six seasons in Cleveland’s organization, including 2019-2020 as the minor league hitting coordinator.

Howard played professionally for 12 seasons, playing in the Reds, Yankees, Phillies, Dodgers, Mariners, Padres, Blue Jays and Cardinals organizations before spending the final two years of his playing career in Independent ball.

He was originally drafted in the fifth round of the 2003 First-Year Player Draft by Cincinnati. Howard earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Management from the University of Miami, where played collegiately for three seasons, winning a National Championship in 2001.

The Mets, who have actually started to heat up offensively, scoring 18 runs in their last three games, will look to keep that rolling under the new duo of hitting coaches. Francisco Lindor, who has yet to get going and is 0-for-his-last-25, will hopefully benefit from some fresh blood in the clubhouse.