Royals add Hunter Mense as assistant hitting coach

The Royals have added Hunter Mense as an assistant hitting coach, according to reporters Mark Feinsand and Maria Guardado. Mense has just completed his first year as hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants. The Royals reassigned hitting coach Alec Zumwalt from instructing major league hitters at the end of the season so he could focus on working with minor leaguers.

Mense is from Liberty, Missouri and attended Mizzou. He spent a few years in the Marlins organization as a minor leaguer, but was never in the big leagues. He was hired as a minor league coach for the Padres in 2017, before moving on to the Blue Jays organization after one year. He joined their big league team as an assistant…