Nov. 4: The Marlins have made Meulens a formal offer to join their 2020 staff, MLB.com’s Jon Morosi tweets. Meulens, however, has received interest from multiple clubs since being eliminated from the Giants’ managerial search, per Morosi, so it seems he could yet have a decision on his hands.
Nov. 1: The Marlins are in talks with current Giants bench coach Hensley Meulens about a role on their staff in 2020, Jon Heyman of MLB Network tweets. Meulens has been told he’s not a finalist in San Francisco’s search for a new manager, per the report, and it seems there’s now a chance the organization will lose him entirely. SiriusXM’s Craig Mish adds that Meulens would likely step into the role of hitting coach if the two sides do work out a deal. He’d pair with bench coach and “offensive coordinator” James Rowson, recently hired away from the Twins, to work on reshaping the organization’s approach at the plate.
Meulens, 52, has spent the past decade on the Giants’ coaching staff under the recently retired Bruce Bochy. He’s been bench coach for the past couple of seasons but previously served as the club’s hitting coach and is also responsible for outfield defense and positioning instruction. Meulens was the Giants’ hitting coach for each of their three World Series titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014. He also has five years of experience as a minor league hitting coach and served as the manager for Team Netherlands in both the 2013 and 2017 World Baseball Classics.
A native of Willemstad, Curacao, Meulens would bring an important bilingual presence to a Marlins club that has a number of key players from Venezuela, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Cuba both on the big league roster and rising through a rapidly improving farm system. Meulens played parts of seven seasons in the Majors — teaming with recently extended Marlins manager Don Mattingly as a Yankee from 1989-93 — and also played professionally in Japan (1994-96), Korea (2000) and Mexico (2001-02).
Meulens got hosed on the Yankees manager job. I hope this is a “manager-in=waiting” job for him.
My sources tell me the Cubs declined Kendall Graveman’s option. I don’t see it on MLBTR yet. [Shocked emoji] [tongue out emoji]
Really! That surprises me.
Solid hire for the Fish if it comes to fruition
Agreed I think he would be very successful perfect fit for the Whitesox and their roster
Good coach. Deserves a shot at manager in the future.
The Giants will miss him if he leaves. He has been a great coach and valued member of the SF community.
great coach? on what qualifications are you making this statement?
He was SF’s hitting coach for many years and we all know that SF has been considered one of the best hitting teams over those years…. oh wait….
We wont miss him. He was a terrible hitting coach. Better bench coach. But no big loss.
how does curacao translate to spanish player. different language. its Dutch i think.
The official language is Dutch indeed. The main language spoken among the population of the dutch Caribbean islands (Aruba, Curacao etc.) is papiamento, a creole language. But Meulens speaks Spanish and (of course) English and reportedly Japanese as well. That alone is a great asset for any clubhouse.
People in the Dutch Caribbean are able to speak Spanish due to the proximity and interaction with nations that use Spanish as an official language. Most countries in the world learn English in the classroom setting starting from their first few years in school.
He’s got to get away from that weed.
Hensley Meulens is the Kim Ng of managerial candidates; so many interviews, zero opportunities. What gives?
I like Hensley, but the Giants have been pretty terrible at hitting the whole time he was the hitting coach. I don’t see the appeal.
Totally agree !! Not a good hitting coach and stole the bench coaching job from Ron Wotus who just finished his 32nd year with the Giants. So Hensley you can “BamBam” out of here.
Somehow this seems like a possible future managerial hire for the Marlins once Mattingly is ready to step down.
what exactly are his accomplishments? Muelens while I’m sure is a good person, he is not a great coach. What hitter on the Giants improved at under Muelens’ coaching? Oh that’s right none of them did. So very happy the Farhan decided to pass on this candidate.
Someone will pick him up instantly. Bam! Consider it done. Bam! An up and coming candidate for jobs galore. Bam! Bam!
Mattingly, Meulens, room for Maas?
Maybe even Kevin Mmahat
and Roberto Kelly and Jim Leyritz too ?
“hey, we know you have a nice job with San Francisco, but do you want the same job with the organization that is the biggest joke in baseball?”
Biggest joke in baseball? This a job with the Marlins, not the Mets.
And most likely the carrot here is the likelihood that he’ll be the next manager after Mattingly – something the Giants rejected him for.
oh good point
I don’t think Meulens is going to be a good fit if one of the reasons for the hire is his ability to speak Spanish. Last I checked the languages spoken in Curacao are Papamineto, Dutch, and English. Writer needs to brush up on his geography.
Muelens is known to speak Spanish among his languages spoken. The Marlins market has mainly two languages – English and Spanish. Other than those two, there are Caribbean languages (like Haitian Creole and Jamaican or Bahamian Patwah and the Curacao languages) and Portuguese. However, the mention of Spanish as a factor is due to it being one of the primary languages in that market.
The writer seems to know his geography and the market involved.
He does actually speak Spanish.
He speaks Spanish genius
Hey Just-a-Nimrod, when you “last I checked” languages spoken in Curaçao, you probably could have easily “checked” Meulens’ bio in Wikipedia.
It reads “Meulens speaks five languages: English, Spanish, Dutch, Papiamento and Japanese”.
Last I checked about 10 minutes ago.
Aw, we were trying to be nice to him. You have to imagine he’s one of those special posters that is required to wear a helmet while he’s on the computer.
How tired must Muelens be of everyone taking note of his ability to speak languages other than English?