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Luis Rojas, New York Mets Manager, 2020 - ?

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“My first move will be not allowing my cousin Mel anywhere near the bullpen.”


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Lefty Specialist wrote:
If he was so great they'd have hired him in the first place.

Yup ©



But that was going to be the case with anyone unless they changed plans

and decided to plunk down big money on a Dustwalter or someone.


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Keith Hernandez is "stunned" and "floored" and thinks that they needed an experienced manager for a "win-now" team.


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Keith Hernandez is "stunned" and "floored" and thinks that they needed an experienced manager for a "win-now" team.


Was he also 'stunned and floored' when they announced Beltran, or is this more a case of 'I don't know him therefore he can't be any good'?





I actually thought they might go the experience route after the Beltran hire crashed, both because of the need for 'stability' and if anyone knows how to over-correct it's the 'Pons.

I thought they might turn to Showalter which I would have been OK with (even if not thrilled) but recoiled at the rumors of Dusty with whom the Astros are talking to (talk about

your over-correcting ... the Astros would be going from the cutting edge of the analytics spectrum to the completely opposite extreme w/Baker).


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How old is he? Like 14?



So this is Felipe's son, Moises's brother? Doesn't look anything like Moises. I guess that's a good thing. Moises always kinda reminded me of the guy from Fine Young Cannibals.


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How old is he? Like 14?



So this is Felipe's son, Moises's brother? Doesn't look anything like Moises. I guess that's a good thing. Moises always kinda reminded me of the guy from Fine Young Cannibals.

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They say he's a good communicator, and makes good decisions. That sounds promising. I would like to hear that he buys into analytics, but in the end I'm guessing Jeff will still be pulling the strings.



I think he was the guy who acted as the messenger between the front office and Mickey last year, so doesn't bode well for those hoping for autonomy.



Anyway, I have no opinion. The Mickey Callaway era taught me that you can't trust a thing that is written about a manager before he is hired.


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And then Felipe was married four times (to two fellow Dominicans, one American, and one Canadian), had ten children in total, and went and named three of the five sons Felipe.


Seems like this would make things unnecessarily complicated.



I think this is a good hire. Knows the players. Has managing experience. Just because they picked Beltran doesn't Rojas would be a bad pick.



Saw this:


When Rojas manages his first game for the Mets while following in the footsteps of his father, Felipe, he will join Connie and Earle Mack, George and Dick Sisler, Bob and Joel Skinner, Buddy and David Bell, and Bob and Aaron Boone as father/son duos to manage in Major League Baseball, according to James Wagner of The New York Times.


It totally slipped my mind that Felipe was a manager -- and that he did it so long! And he got to manage the 1995 NL All-Star team for having the best record in the season cut short.


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Keith Hernandez is "stunned" and "floored" and thinks that they needed an experienced manager for a "win-now" team.


Damn I keep turning off twitter just when the good stuff happens


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Lefty Specialist wrote:

Benjamin Grimm wrote:

Great guys they hired in the first place include Mickey Callaway and Willie Randolph and Art Howe.


And Gil Hodges and Bobby Valentine and Davey Johnson.


These guys didn't hire those guys.



He seems promising, has the support of most of the locker room, and is more than a little conversant with both metrics and baseball lifeishness. I'm all right with it.


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Of course nobody knows how this is going to work out, but:

*he's coached alot of these guys before in the minors and they like him;

*he has actual managerial experience down there;

*He's been with the organization for a long while now, and is well regarded internally;

*his coaching role this year was to participate in discussions of in-game strategies and the use of analytics, so he's at least conversant with those tools; and

* his baseball lineage means he's grown up in the game, so his youth doesn't necessarily work against him.



How he "handles NY" (i.e., the media) remains to be seen, but he's certainly not going to be any worse at it than the thin-skinned Beltran. Given that ST starts in a few weeks, and Brodie wasn't going to give the keys over to a Showalter or some other outsider demanding total control, I think this was as good a choice as they could have made under the circumstances (with a sigh of relief that they passed on Dusty), and i'm much more hopeful now than i was when they hired Beltran. The guy's young but he seems to actually have some qualifications, so that's a nice change.



but yes, we'll see.


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His credentials are so good, it makes me wonder why they hired Beltran in the first place.

It seems like he checked off more qualification boxes (except for being a well known ex-player) than Beltran did.

And, I'm doing a happy dance that it wasn't Dusty.

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