Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has the scoop:
The Cardinals will offer Bengie Molina the role of assistant hitting coach. The move will allow him to join, for the first time in their major-league careers, his younger brother Yadier on the same team. Molina, 38, last played in 2010, ending a career that included two Rawlings Gold Glove Awards.
John Mabry served in that assistant role this summer and then got promoted to hitting coach when Mark McGwire took the Dodgers’ job last month to be closer to his family. Since then, Mabry has been working with manager Mike Matheny to fill his old position.
And they’ve settled on a guy with zero coaching experience but who would obviously be received well by at least one key member of the St. Louis clubhouse.
Goold says “any announcement will come after the Winter Meetings” conclude in Nashville, Tennessee.