Yankees hitting coach Sean Casey won’t return for 2024 season: What to make of his tenure
The Mayor’s stint with the New York Yankees is over: hitting coach Sean Casey will not return to the team next season, he announced on his podcast, “The Mayor’s Office,” on Wednesday. Here’s what you need to know:
- Casey spent half of the 2023 season with the Yankees, who hired him in early July after firing Dillon Lawson.
- The 49-year-old Casey joined a struggling Yankees squad that finished the season at 82-80 and missed the playoffs for the first time in seven years.
- Casey played 12 MLB seasons, earning three All-Star selections with the Cincinnati Reds. He had most recently worked as an MLB Network analyst at the time of his hiring.
What Casey said
“Boone and I had talked about coming back next year and what that would look like,” Casey said. “I told him that I’m not going to be able to come back next year.”
Casey explained that he didn’t want to be away from his two teenage daughters, who live in Pittsburgh, for eight months of the year while he’s in New York. He went on to add that working for the Yankees was “one of the best experiences of my whole life.”
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