Jeff Albert
Jeffrey A. Albert is an American professional baseball coach, currently serving as the Director of Hitting for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball He has previously coached in MLB for the Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals.
Career
Albert graduated from Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York. Albert attended NCAA Division III Rochester Institute of Technology where he hit.301 as a freshman and.351 as a sophomore. He transferred to Butler University, where he played baseball for the Bulldogs. Across his junior and senior seasons, Albert batted.284 with 10 home runs and 66 strikeouts in 299 at bats. After graduating in 2003, he signed with the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League, an independent baseball league. Albert earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Butler University in 2003 and a master's degree in kinesiology from Louisiana Tech University in 2008.Albert served as a hitting coach in the St. Louis Cardinals minor league system for five years, and then joined the Astros as their minor league hitting coordinator, a job he held for four years. After the 2017 season, the Astros promoted Albert to assistant hitting coach for the major league team, succeeding Alonzo Powell.
The St. Louis Cardinals hired Albert as their hitting coach after the 2018 season. Albert left the Cardinals after the 2022 season.
On November 15, 2022, Albert was hired by the New York Mets as their Director of Hitting. On October 14, 2025, it was announced that Albert would be the new leader of the Mets' major-league hitting program.