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Replacing Mickey: The Quest for a New Mets Manager

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And Bill Almon! and Ty Kelly! and Jason Kardtke! and Shawn Gilbert! and Shane Halter! and Jeff McNight! and Keith Miller...


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Vic Sage wrote:

And Bill Almon! and Ty Kelly! and Jason Kardtke! and Shawn Gilbert! and Shane Halter! and Jeff McNight! and Keith Miller...


That's what the players use to get access to the clubhouse, right ... their specially assigned Jason Kardtke?


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Mike Shelton gets a second interview, joining Rojas, Girardi, Perez, Beltran and Bogar.


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Tim Bogar makes the cover of not one, but two Mets programs. That's two more than Mets Cy Young award winner R.A. Dickey.





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A copy of the later program was unearthed during the demolition of Shea in the vicinity of the home dugout, like an artifact of ancient times.


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Fun fact: Buddy Bell, Mike Bell, Barry Larkin, Stephen Larkin, Ken Griffey, Jr., all. graduated from Cincinnati's famed Archbishop Moeller High School and went on to play for the Reds.



That's about all I can tell you about Mike Bell, apart from his family's longtime baseball heritage.


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Johnny Lunchbucket wrote:

Benjamin Grimm wrote:

Eighteen years ago, The Big E predicted that Tim Bogar would be a great coach/manager some day:



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Love those fan memories. Bogar played mainly during my "Wilderness Years" when I was out of state, no games on TV, fresh off "Worst Team" era, and the strike that led to an additional year of pay-no-mind-to-baseball. Basically I missed almost the entire Dallas Green Era, returning only in time to see it end.


I had a similar experience, I went off to college in '91, and they got bad right after that, and I didn't really start to pay attention again until the fall of '96, after I had gotten my first job and needed some way to pass the time in a town where I didn't really know anyone. I was listening to internet broadcasts using Real Audio for free, right before they put up the initial paywalls. Got me real cable in time for the 1997 season.


MFS62 First Round Pick

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Carlos Beltran has a great opportunity.

I hope he doesn't let this one go by.



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Mendoza might be a very good manager.



I don't think the Mets have the right front office/owners/PR/media cache to navigate those delicate waters though. Not sure any team does really, which of course is part of the catch-22 problem there.



Unless they come out of the gate at an .800 clip and never let up of course.


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Being that nobody agrees on what a good manager is, it's very hard to say she would or wouldn't.



I imagine she might get interviews, but unless they're desperate for a p.r. game-change, the organization that makes a move such as hiring a female leader for a role that has been traditionally exclusively male would typically do it at the junior level first, and so I imagine the first American female professional baseball manager would probably have to survive a gig with the Delmarva Shorebirds first. Or perhaps an independent league team like the Sioux City Explorers would take the plunge, knowing that the national spotlight wouldn't be as bright, and that publicity at that level is worth as much as wins.



Corporations — consciously or unconsciously — tend to look for a win-win situation before breaking a gentleman's agreement, I think.


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There's a new episode of the "Shea Anything" podcast with SNY's Doug Williams and Andy Martino. It was nice to get 30 minutes of Mets-talk even though nothing was added that we didn't know other than Martino has heard of other names who have gotten interviews but he can't report on those names. He said that some of the interviewees might show up in other roles (such as Skip Schumaker). He said that Showalter hasn't gotten an interview because there is a "history" with some of the Mets F.O.


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Mendoza might be a very good manager.

If she is the person doing the playoff games on ESPN radio, I have been very impressed with her knowledge of the traditional game and the new stats, the individual player's strengths and weaknesses(e.g.- "He's dropping his hands lower than on his first at bat"), and in-game strategy.



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Maybe HOU will fire Hinch after this pathetic display and then Brodie can hire his buddy.


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Girardi is not a bullet “dodged.” There is zero indication that he would do a bad job as manager of the Mets.



He's an opportunity missed. Is he the only opportunity for the Mets to hire a better manager for 2020? Certainly not. But an opportunity missed nonetheless.


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Benjamin Grimm wrote:

I'm not sure that Girardi is a dodged bullet, but no, I'm not at all upset that he won't be coming to the Mets, nor that he's going to the Phillies.


Kinda where I am. I just didn't see his style meshing very well with the Wilpons, which is key for any manager, sorry to say. If Jeffy told him to use pitchers more or less frequently, I'd imagine Girardi would blow a gasket. Mickey submitted to the request. A strong, confident manager would talk the owner out of meddling. I want THAT guy.


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Girardi is not a bullet “dodged.” There is zero indication that he would do a bad job as manager of the Mets.



He's an opportunity missed. Is he the only opportunity for the Mets to hire a better manager for 2020? Certainly not. But an opportunity missed nonetheless.


opportunity? sure, so was literally every other person in the world.



Girardi was like a safety school. He was the 'easy' pick. the safe one. That the Mets didn't just go "Girardi's good enough, just hire him" and move on is a great sign.


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Bob Nightengale says Eduardo Perez is the clear frontrunner despite Martino propping up Bogar.


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If it's coming down to Perez and Bogar I guess that I'll be OK with it.


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