Collin Hetzler Hitting Coach
AGE: 34 BORN: July 26, 1990 in Fort Worth, TX RESIDES: Aledo, TX
Collin Hetzler is a new WooSox hitting coach for 2025 joining returning hitting coach Doug Clark as well as Rich Gedman who is now the Red Sox Player Development Hitting Advisor. The trio will combine to give the WooSox one of the stron- gest hitting staffs in all of Minor League Baseball. In 2024, Hetzler finished his second season as hitting coach for the Syracuse Mets of the International League. It was also his fourth season in the New York Mets’ organization. He spent the 2021 and 2022 seasons as the Mets’ complex hitting coordinator at New York’s spring training complex in Port St. Lucie, FL. In 2022, Hetzler was named the Mets Minor League Staff Member of the Year. The Fort Worth, TX native played two seasons of college baseball at Galveston College before playing his final two collegiate seasons at Houston Baptist University in 2011 and 2012. He had a .328 batting average during his two seasons with Houston Baptist and was named to the Great West Conference All-Tournament Team in both 2011 & 2012. Hetzler was an assistant coach for the baseball team at Houston Baptist in 2015, 2016, and 2017, and he earned an MBA from Houston Baptist University in 2017. Prior to joining the Mets, Hetzler worked as a hitting trainer and the operations manager at Driveline Baseball in Kent, WA. Driveline is a data-driven baseball development program.
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