Twins add three to finalize 2025 coaching staff
… and 2025 first base coach Hank Conger has been promoted to assistant bench coach
The Twins on Thursday added three coaches to their 2025 staff, filling the vacancies left when the team fired three hitting coaches in the wake of a late-season collapse that left them out of the playoffs.
Minnesota added Rayden Sierra as the team’s third hitting coach, Trevor Amicone as assistant hitting coach and Ramon Borrego as first base/infield coach.
Hank Conger, the team’s first base coach last season, has been promoted to assistant bench coach and will serve as catchers coach, as well.
The Twins lost 27 of their last 39 games last season and acted quickly to fire hitting coaches David Popkins and Rudy Hernandez, and assistant hitting coach Derek Shomon. Assistant bench coach/infield coach Tony Diaz also was let go.
Sierra enters his fifth season in the Twins organization and first as a coach at the major league level. He has been the organization’s minor league assistant hitting and development coach and a hitting coach at Class A Fort Myers.
Amicone completed his second season as hitting coach for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in the New York Yankees organization, which finished the 2024 regular season second in the International League in runs scored (854), OPS (.796) and on-base percentage (.358).
Borrego joins the major league staff after 21 seasons as a coach or manager in the Twins organization. He spent the past four seasons as manager for the Class AA team in Wichita, Kan., where he was Central manager of the year in 2021.
Twins 2025 coaching staff
Rocco Baldelli – Manager
Trevor Amicone – Assistant Hitting Coach
Matt Borgschulte – Hitting Coach
Ramon Borrego – First Base/Infield Coach
Hank Conger – Assistant Bench/Catching Coach
Nate Dammann – Quality Control Coach
Pete Maki – Pitching Coach
Luis Ramirez – Assistant Pitching Coach
Rayden Sierra – Hitting Coach
Colby Suggs – Bullpen Coach
Jayce Tingler – Bench Coach
Tommy Watkins – Third Base/Outfield Coach