The Philadelphia Phillies are looking to fill their last remaining open position on manager Joe Girardi‘s coaching staff for the 2020 season: hitting coach.
The organization, according to NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Jim Salisbury, has received permission from the 2019 World Series-champion Washington Nationals to interview their assistant hitting coach, Joe Dillon, for the position.
Dillon, Salisbury writes, is gaining recognition around baseball “for marrying new-age science with old-school principles in coaching hitters,” a similar philosophy as to what Girardi will bring to the Phillies.
As Nationals assistant hitting coach over the past two seasons, Dillon has worked with Kevin Long, who worked alongside Girardi on the New York Yankees’ coaching staff from 2008 to 2017.