LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday named Pedro Guerrero a hitting coach on their major league staff, filling the lone opening on manager Dave Roberts’ coaching group for 2027.
Guerrero, 37, comes over from Miami, where he led the Marlins’ hitting group for the past two seasons before the club decided after 2026 to go in a different direction. He replaces Aaron Bates, who spent 12 years in the Dodgers organization but could not agree with the team on a new contract.
Guerrero will share the job with Robert Van Scoyoc, who has coached Dodgers hitters for eight seasons. The rest of the staff is expected to return.
The hire brings Guerrero back to the organization that signed him as an infielder in 2006. He played eight minor league seasons in the Dodgers system without reaching the majors, then started coaching at rookie-level Ogden in 2016 and 2017.
From there he spent four seasons as an assistant hitting coach in Philadelphia, beginning in 2018, and three more in the same role in San Francisco before moving to Miami. He has nine years of big-league coaching experience.
The new coach is a different man from the 1980s Dodgers All-Star of the same name, although the two share a Dominican hometown, San Pedro de Macoris.
Los Angeles ranked fourth in the majors with 801 runs in 2026, but the offense faded in the second half, and the two-time defending champions were swept by Milwaukee in the NL Championship Series.
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