Dodgers inability to hit leads to front office shakeup after 12 years

The Los Angeles Dodgers are parting ways with co-hitting coach Aaron Bates after 12 years in the organisation. The move is an unexpected change for a club that had hoped to retain its coaching staff, and leaves a vacancy on the hitting staff ahead of the new season.

Bates, 42, joined the Dodgers as a minor-league hitting coach and moved to the big-league staff as an assistant in 2019. He became co-hitting coach alongside Robert Van Scoyoc before the 2023 season and was part of the staff for the team’s back-to-back World Series wins in 2024 and 2025. The two sides could not agree on a new multi-year contract.