The Royals are hiring Hunter Mense as their hitting coach, per reporting from Mark Feinsand and Maria I. Guardado of MLB.com. Mense had been in that same role with the Giants. It was reported in September that the Royals would be moving on from hitting coach Alec Zumwalt.
Mense, 42, makes a quick pivot. It was less than a year ago that he got his first hitting coach job when the Giants hired him. He worked under first-time big league manager Tony Vitello, who had just been hired about a month earlier out of the college rangs. Now Mense is packing his bags for Kansas City.