Here are five things to know about Texas’ new hitting coach. Hometown: El Cajon, Calif. Boone made his major league debut in 1992 with the Seattle Mariners and played in the MLB until 2005, when he spent his final season with Seattle and the Minnesota Twins.

Bret Boone’s weekend started off pretty normal. The biggest news on Saturday was when he went to a baseball game at USC, his alma mater, where he threw out the first pitch ahead of a big win over rival UCLA.

Bret Boone, who made a name for himself with the Cincinnati Reds and Seattle Mariners in the 1990s and 2000s, is set to replace Donnie Ecker as the Texas Rangers' hitting coach.