Nelson Paulino
Nelson Rafael Paulino is a former minor league infielder and current hitting coach in the Boston Red Sox minor league system. Listed at and, he was a switch hitter and threw right handed.Career
Paulino started his professional career with the Atlanta Braves organization, playing for them at three different minor league levels from 1992 through 1994. He played all four infield positions, mostly as a second baseman, and posted a combined average of.233 with four home runs and 47 runs batted in in 237 games.
He then started a long association with the Red Sox organization in 1998, working for them in the Dominican Summer League with the DSL Red Sox team, first as a scout, later as their hitting coach, manager, and bench coach, before returning to his hitting coach duties.
In 2012, Paulino was named the hitting coach for the Class A Short Season Lowell Spinners in replacement of Rich Gedman, who joined the Class A-Advanced Salem Red Sox in the same capacity. Paulino was promoted to Salem in 2013, again as a replacement for Gedman, who became part of the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs coaching staff. Paulino then served as hitting coach for Boston's Class A affiliate, the Greenville Drive, in 2014 and 2015, and filled the same role for Salem in 2016 through 2018. Paulino was back with Greenville in 2019, and in January 2020 was again assigned to Salem.
