The concept of an “offensive coordinator” might seem foreign in the game of baseball. It is a title usually reserved for football coaches. But with what James Rowson did in Minnesota last year before coming to Miami, fans will pretty quickly catch on to the importance he has to the Marlins’ rebuild.
A year before he joined the Twins staff in 2017, Minnesota was a middle-of-the-road offense. By the end of his tenure in 2019, the “Bomba Squad” had propelled the club to a division title. This nickname was born from the sheer amount of home runs they hit as a team, breaking the single-season team home run record in 2019, with 307.