Yankees hitting coach James Rowson helped the Yankees to the highest scoring offense in all of MLB, as well as the most home runs, highest slugging percentage and OPS, and it looks like the Minnesota Twins are eyeing his services.

Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported that the Yankees granted the Twins permission to speak to Rowson regarding the open managerial position.

Rocco Baldelli recently spent the past seven seasons as the Twins’ skipper and did fairly well.

In his first season as manager in 2019, he was awarded the Manager of the Year, where he led the Twins to a 101-61 record, the franchise’s best regular season record since 1965.

Yet, even with that milestone in franchise history, Minnesota fell in the ALDS 3-0, and from 2019 until now, the Twins only won one playoff game.

Rowson is a familiar face to the Twins, who actually served as the Twins hitting coach from 2017-2019 and helped the team have a top-10 batting average in two of those seasons, including as the third best average in 2019.

Not only that, the Twins set an MLB record with 307 home runs under his tutelage with eight players hitting 20 or more home runs.

After 2019, he went over to Miami to serve as the Marlins bench coach for three seasons, before bouncing around to the Tigers and eventually finding his way to the Yankees.

In a report from Greg Joyce of the New York Post, when the Yankees visited the Twins in Minnesota and spent much of his time catching up with old staff members at Target Field.

Obviously, Rowson is not the only candidate in this process, but due to his connection with the team, he should definitely be considered a favorite.

Behind Rowson is former Pirates manager, Derek Shelton, as well as Red Sox bench coach Ramon Vasquez.

He didn't have a substantial playing career in the majors, playing just three years of minor league ball in both the Yankees and Mariners systems before retiring from his playing career.

After this massive season at the plate for the Yankees, it’s expected that Rowson at least gets a promotion of some sort, whether he gets the Twins job or not.