Building Beltran’s Staff

[G-Fafif]

Jeremy Hefner emerges as leading candidate to take over as pitching coach (Phil Regan's status was always interim).



Terry Collins won't be sliding back into the dugout, but he'll take Carlos's calls as special assistant.



Jerry Narron revealed as bench coach possibility because a picture Brodie tweeted of Carlos signing his contract included a notebook with Narron's bona fides visible to the curious.

Edited November 9, 2019 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Narron will always be the guy who replaced Thurman Munson.



Now, even more dramatically, he may be the guy who replaces Jim Riggleman!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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Jeremy Hefner emerges as leading candidate to take over as pitching coach (Phil Regan's status was always interim).



Terry Collins won't be sliding back into the dugout, but he'll take Carlos's calls as special assistant.



Jerry Narron revealed as bench coach possibility because a picture Brodie tweeted of Carlos signing his contract included a notebook with Narron's bona fides visible tothe curious.

[G-Fafif]

[Edgy MD]

I think it's more of a sheet on top of a notebook than a Narron notebook en toto, but good for the organization if they can actually fill a notebook with information on Jerry Narron.



I'm more interested in what messages would be on that phone, but perhaps folks were looking at that when the discovered Narron's name.



Also, I have to say that, to me, Baldy Beltran is Yankee Beltran, and I hope that, whatever hair he has left, it makes a comeback in the Mets dugout.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Our old friend Jeremy Hefner is the clubhouse leader as the next pitching coach, Tracky says. Heyman says its like Chili Davis returns as hitting coach

[G-Fafif]

Martino says Mets are high on someone best described as “this guy”.



https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1194016903448055810?s=21https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1194016903448055810?s=21

[Guest 41Forever]

Martino says Mets are high on someone best described as “this guy”. https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1194016903448055810?s=21https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1194016903448055810?s=21

Michigan connections are a good thing.

[Edgy MD]

Chris Fetter is a computer-generated character, right?

[Lefty Specialist]

Michigan connection



All you need to know.

[G-Fafif]

Fredi Gonzalez reportedly a bench coach candidate. “He didn't go to Michigan,” according to a highly placed Mets source, “but what a splendid first name!”

[LWFS]

Stylewise, wasn't Fredi, like, all kinds of red-assy? Like, Cuban Earl Weaver/Guillen-type, ejections galore?



If so, might be an interesting pairing, given that El Es Aqui is generally Senor Sangfroid (to his PR detriment among a certain play-the-game-the-right-way contingent)... but it ain't my favorite disposition in a dugout, and I can't imagine it wouldn't grate on most of last year's returnees.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Chris Fetter is a computer-generated character, right?

yes. on a PC. it's right there in the tweet.

[Frayed Knot]

Flushing native, former first round draft pick (22nd overall by Toronto in 1990), and former Oakland, Cleveland, Atlanta, MFY, Texas (and Oakland again) hurler Steve Karsay https://nypost.com/2019/11/17/ex-yankee-steve-karsay-to-interview-for-mets-pitching-coach/will interview for the NYM pitching coach job



The 47 y/o Karsay worked in the Indians org from 2012-2018 then spent 2019 as the Brewers bullpen coach.

His previous accomplishments in Queens involved pitching for Christ the King HS and later serving up a certain post-9/11 HR to Mr. Piazza

[bmfc1]

https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1196472445257035776https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1196472445257035776

[LWFS]

Quick, possibly dumb question: any reason he isn't on-salary in Boston?

Frayed Knot wrote: Flushing native, former first round draft pick (22nd overall by Toronto in 1990), and former Oakland, Cleveland, Atlanta, MFY, Texas (and Oakland again) hurler Steve Karsay https://nypost.com/2019/11/17/ex-yankee-steve-karsay-to-interview-for-mets-pitching-coach/will interview for the NYM pitching coach job The 47 y/o Karsay worked in the Indians org from 2012-2018 then spent 2019 as the Brewers bullpen coach. His previous accomplishments in Queens involved pitching for Christ the King HS and later serving up a certain post-9/11 HR to Mr. Piazza

He's done so much for this city already.



I remember thinking that Hefner-- when not hurt-- was getting the most out of whatever little he brought to the table, skills-and-stuff-wise. Perhaps my memory distorts facts.

[Edgy MD]

I think it was Willets who said he enjoyed Karsay because whenever announcers mentioned him, it sounded like they were speaking Pig Latin.



I tend to think of Christ the King HS as the Met-lovingest high school in town. I've never met a lot who were either Mets nuts or non-baseball enthusiasts. Never met a Yankee fan from there.



Didn't they have a nortorious murderer from there? I think he actually played on their baseball team.

[LWFS]

Are you thinking of ex-Nets-and-Johnnies-PF/amateur gunslinger Jayson Williams?

[Edgy MD]

No, something more, I think.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Carlos is on record saying he would require an "experienced" bench coach, which I take to mean an ex-MLB manager or bench coach so I dunno if Cora who hasn't held either job yet would be the best fit if that's so.

[Edgy MD]

Clint Hurdle is just sitting out there jobless for what that's worth. Coming off a shitbox of a season with Pittsburgh (therefore, the joblessness), but he has a ton of managerial experience, most of it in the National League, has won the Manager of the Year Award, and has been a hitting coach also. He played all over the diamond, experience which could help tighten up defense at one position or another.



He's a recovering alcoholic, has Met connections, and is part of the coterie of former Davey Johnson players to go into the managerial game. A whole bunch of managers and coaches came out of the 1983 Tides alone.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The New York Post is reporting that the Mets' bench coach will be Hensley Meulens.

[Edgy MD]

First Reaction: Man, they've just love hiring smoaches with a high degree of Yankee connection.



Second Reaction: Also, he's not a dude with National League managerial experience, or even any managerial experience, I think.



Third Reaction: He has a strong record as a hitting coach, and could provide a potential complement or a conflict for Chili Davis.



Fourth Reaction: He'll be the first Curaçaoan coach in Mets history, and thereby add a new flag to the 2020 Roster thread.

[Edgy MD]

Actually, among Curaçao, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, the Caribbean will be highly represented.

[LWFS]

FINALLY, a Papamiento speaker on this godforsaken staff.

[Fman99]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The New York Post is reporting that the Mets' bench coach will be Hensley Meulens.

Mostly reminds me that I made a Suzyn Waldman joke about him being "all mule."

[Guest 41Forever]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The New York Post is reporting that the Mets' bench coach will be Hensley Meulens. Mostly reminds me that I made a Suzyn Waldman joke about him being "all mule."

I just hope he dropped the "Bam Bam" nickname!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Now he calls himself "Hopparoo".

[Frayed Knot]

Jeremy Hefner to be the pitching coach, so sez MLBN's Hey,Man and https://nypost.com/2019/11/26/mets-hiring-jeremy-hefner-as-pitching-coach/doubled down on by the Puma









P.S. I always get a kick out of reports saying that they "confirmed" some other reporter's earlier report. It's like they're trying to say that they separately confirm that the previous reporting is accurate, except that

it always comes off to me as them saying: 'Yes, I am hereby confirming that that other person did in fact report this'

ESPN does this a lot, I believe in an attempt to make it seem like every bit of news is broken by them. If they do report it first then they claim it that way. But if someone else reports it first they lead with the

declaration that they themselves are confirming the news while mentioning in passing and after the fact that said news was first reported by someone else via some outside organization. I mean, sure, someone

else actually broke this story ... but the confirming, now that's the important part!

[Lefty Specialist]

So we go from the oldest pitching coach in the game to probably the youngest. Always liked Hefner, seemed to get the most out of what he had. Hope it translates.