Dominican Republic Defensive Coach

Boston Red SoxDominican RepublicOn-siteFull-timeMid level, 2–5 yearsListed 3 days ago

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About this role

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Collaborate with the Latin American Field Coordinator and coaching staff to implement daily defensive and baserunning practice plans that advance individual player priorities.

- Coordinate with academy personnel to organize the workday, sequence training blocks, and maximize on-field efficiency.

- Work with DR staff to provide consistent feedback loops via multiple platforms including after-action reviews, leaderboards and other initiatives.

- Support the defensive and baserunning portion of player meetings, tracking and reporting on player goal progress.

- Support other minor league programs and initiatives as directed by Player Development leadership.

- Spanish proficiency is ideal, but not a requirement.

COMPETENCIES:

- Evaluate and prescribe best-in-class drills to address deficiencies in each individual player.

- Able to develop programming towards organizationally defined KPIs.

- Understanding of how to construct training environments that put position players in a position to improve skill and/or talent.

- Able to cultivate trust and player buy-in.

- Willing and able to use technology to maximize the effectiveness of programming.

- Able to develop key takeaways from large amounts of data to identify high leverage areas of development for each player.

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