LAS VEGAS — The Dodgers didn’t leave their hitting coach vacancy open for long.
The team announced on Tuesday that it had hired 37-year-old Pedro Guerrero as its new co-hitting coach alongside Robert Van Scoyoc, filling the void that was left by Aaron Bates’ departure from the organization last week.
Guerrero comes to the Dodgers after spending the past two seasons as the Miami Marlins’ hitting coach. Before that, he was an assistant hitting coach with the San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies, as well as a minor-league bench coach in the Dodgers’ organization from 2016-17 with their rookie-level affiliate in Ogden.
As a player, the Dominican-born infielder also spent most of his eight-year minor-league career (from 2006 to 2013) in the Dodgers’ farm system, hitting .236 with 23 home runs in 411 games. He reached the club’s Triple-A affiliate in 2010 but never got a call-up to the majors.
Instead, Guerrero has forged his big-league path as a coach, spending four seasons in his assistant hitting coach role with the Phillies and three with the Giants before being hired as the Marlins’ primary hitting coach in 2025 (under then-newly hired Miami manager Clayton McCullough, who was previously the Dodgers’ first-base coach).
At the start of the offseason, Marlins president of baseball operations Peter Bendix announced that Guerrero would not return to the club but praised the work he did with the team’s young roster.
“He did a tremendous job for us,” Bendix said, according to MLB.com. “He’s a wonderful human being. We’re going to miss having him around and really appreciate everything that Pedro gave to us. Just time for a new voice in the hitting space.”
Last year, the Marlins ranked just 18th in the majors in scoring but made other improvements compared to 2025 in batting average (from 11th to seventh), on-base percentage (from 17th to sixth) and OPS (from 18th to ninth).
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