The San Francisco Giants new coaching staff is finalized.
But it’s possible the franchise may end up having one more vacancy to fill.
On Monday morning, Joel Sherman of The New York Post reported that Giants’ bench coach Hensley Meulens will interview for the New York Yankees’ managerial opening after the organization fired Joe Girardi. Meulens has spent the past eight seasons on San Francisco’s coaching staff, and earlier this offseason, Meulens was reassigned from his role as the team’s hitting coach to become the Giants’ new bench coach.
https://t.co/suHWX3LDsN Post has learned that Boone and Meulens are in next wave of #Yankees manager interviews
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) November 13, 2017
The move was designed to highlight Meulens’ strengths as a coach while also allowing the Giants to introduce a new perspective to the team’s hitters, and could serve as an opportunity for Meulens to prove himself as a potential replacement for Giants’ manager Bruce Bochy in the future.
Yankees’ general manager Brian Cashman told Sherman that the Yankees are suspending their interview process until the league’s general manager meetings come to a conclusion this Thursday, but Meulens is expected to vie with former New York third baseman Aaron Boone for the opening.
Meulens, 50, played in the Yankees’ organization from 1989-1993, and also gained managerial experience during the World Baseball Classic this spring with the Netherlands.