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Christian Red catches up with Carlos Delgado.


In the eleven years since he retired from the majors, slugging first baseman Carlos Delgado says there have been stretches of time when he's been so busy running his Extra Bases charitable foundation in his native Puerto Rico, that his schedule has mirrored the one he kept during his 17-year baseball career.



“My wife (Betzy) says, ‘I think you work more now than when you used to play.' I'm like, ‘Not quite.' I don't miss airplanes,” says Delgado.



Unlike other baseball peers who hit the links in retirement, or maybe transition into a television career or return to the baseball diamond as a coach or manager — like Delgado's fellow Puerto Rican countrymen Alex Cora and, briefly, Carlos Beltran, both did — when the 48-year-old Delgado hung up his spikes, he channeled his energy and passion, not to mention his own checkbook, into growing the Extra Bases non-profit that he started in 2001. At the time, he was playing for the Blue Jays.


https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-carlos-delgado-beltran-extra-bases-charity-20210102-pqtqlgfc2repheu3gtmynvjggi-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-carlos-delgado-beltran-extra-bases-charity-20210102-pqtqlgfc2repheu3gtmynvjggi-story.html


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Gerald Williams is https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/sports/basketball/tampa-bay-titans-toronto-raptors.htmlrunning a professional basketball team in Florida.


“I'm that guy who makes sure they understand there is no tomorrow,” said Gerald Williams, who retired from Major League Baseball in 2005. “They can't afford to say, ‘Oh, don't worry, we'll get 'em tomorrow.' Tomorrow? What are you talking about? You're going to get cut today!”


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Rico Brogna himself!


It's not unusual to find minor-league managers with big-league playing experience or a background in scouting. It is much rarer to find one with a master's degree in cybersecurity, experience as a player-information coach on a major-league staff or as a college football coach. The A's newest minor-league manager — incoming Low-A Stockton Ports skipper Rico Brogna — has all that in his background, and a lot more.



Fans of baseball in the 1990s likely remember Brogna as a smooth-fielding first baseman who had a pair of 100+ RBI seasons with the late-‘90s Phillies. A first-round pick of the Tigers in 1988 out of high school, Brogna spent parts of nine seasons in the major leagues, mostly with the Phillies and Mets. But his post-playing career has taken a more unusual path.



Since retiring as a player in 2001, Brogna has earned two degrees — an undergraduate degree in business from Post University and a master's degree in cybersecurity from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — while holding jobs in baseball ranging from pro scout to minor-league coach and manager to special assistant to the general manager to farm director to player-information coach, among other titles. A three-sport star in high school who turned down a football scholarship to Clemson to play baseball, Brogna has also coached high school basketball and football, and even spent two seasons as a volunteer wide receivers coach at Wesleyan University, where he worked alongside disciples of Bill Belichick.


Read more about the Athletic minor league manager at the Athletic.



https://theathletic.com/2341426/2021/01/25/rico-brogna-set-to-skipper-the-stockton-ports-through-uncharted-waters-in-2021/https://theathletic.com/2341426/2021/01/25/rico-brogna-set-to-skipper-the-stockton-ports-through-uncharted-waters-in-2021/


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Orioles and their broadcast partners have gutted their on-air team, letting go of longtime voice Gary Thorne, veteran of two Mets tenures, among several others. O's seem to be operating on some serious austerity.



Kevin Morgan gets re-upped with the Twins as minor league field coordinator after a quarter century in the Mets system.


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Gerald Williams is running a professional basketball team in Florida.



“I'm that guy who makes sure they understand there is no tomorrow,” said Gerald Williams, who retired from Major League Baseball in 2005. “They can't afford to say, ‘Oh, don't worry, we'll get 'em tomorrow.' Tomorrow? What are you talking about? You're going to get cut today!”



Damn, that Popsicle is ice-cold.


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Ty Kelly on what it's like when a superstar joins your team:


He gets two lockers to himself, that's a certainty. But, what about the clubhouse dynamic? Will he mess with the team chemistry? Will he be able to learn a new handshake with every player on the team? Will he be too outspoken? Too soft-spoken? Too…medium-spoken? Will he show up and ask for more than two lockers? More than three bowls of porridge?



The first year of Robinson Canó's 10 year, $240 million deal with the Seattle Mariners came in 2014, coinciding with my first full season in the Mariners organization, as well as my first Major League Spring Training invite.



I was starstruck — for obvious reasons — but so was everyone else. As a rule, Major League Baseball players don't ogle or show excessive admiration for any other MLB players — due to deep-seated toxic masculinity and inferiority complexes — except when it comes to superstars. When you start getting into “top 25 player in the league” category or “future Hall of Famer,” the adulation begins to pour in. Everyone wants to know what he's all about: what makes him tick, what he eats, how he dresses, whether he uses a loofa, whether he was friends with a guy on his former team who I am currently friends with. Also, baseball stuff.



Some guys are probably so starstruck that they discretely snap an iPhone 5 photo of King Felix in the locker room and still have it on my phone to this day. Still have it on their phone to this day. It's still on my phone.



I spoke to Cano twice that Spring Training. The first instance came at second base shortly after we took ground balls one day. Grounders arrived, we fielded them, we tossed them into a pile on the ground. An empty bucket was run out by a coach so the balls could find a way back to the fungo hitter to be peppered at us again. The optimal way to fill said bucket with said baseballs is to put the bucket about 10 feet away and shoot every ball toward it, a la Shaq from the free-throw line. As a former high school basketball “standout” and perennially overzealous competitor (again: toxic masculinity), I took the opportunity to sink many more shots than Robbie and let him know I was unimpressed by his game.



“Do they not play basketball in the Dominican?” I asked, feeling far too confident in myself.



“No, they do.”



And that was pretty much it.



The second time we talked was in the batting cage before the day's scheduled workouts began. He mimicked my swing.



“This is you,” he told me.



I knew; it was a passable impression but I was extremely flattered. He was watching me, and I assume he took a picture of me in the clubhouse also.



Every interaction with a superstar on your team is meaningful. Canó was open at the time about not wanting to act as a coach to the younger players on the team and in the organization: he just wanted to be a player and worry about living up to his huge deal. But when you're larger than life, you're influential whether you like it or not. Guys watch the way you go about your business: for the rest of my career, I never placed a ball in a bucket. But, when you have as sweet a jumper as I do, you don't have to.


Also some quiet awe for The Captain within.



https://themetropolitan.substack.com/p/welcome-ty-kellyhttps://themetropolitan.substack.com/p/welcome-ty-kelly


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Scott Erickson, whose abortive 2004 season as a Met was about as quintessentially representative as anything of that season that cost both a manager and a GM their jobs, has been arrested following a https://www.dailynews.com/2021/01/30/former-mlb-pitcher-charged-in-fatal-hit-and-run-in-westlake-village/drag race that led to the death of two children.



Erickson escapes larger charges (so far) as it was his opponent that struck the two boys.


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Yeah, it's just awful. It happened months ago, but Erickson's part in the mess is just coming to light.



Opponent was a socialite, and both were well known in the boozing scene in their swanky community. I'm not sure but I'm getting the inference that they were racing home from a bar, assuming there was a bar open. But the opponent was drunk, and she tore through a crosswalk as a crossing family was only able to pull two of their four children to safety.


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Bobby Jones (not the other Bobby Jones) always tried to conduct himself professionally, setting a good example for all you kids out there.


He was also someone who kept his emotions in check on the mound. “That's something my dad instilled within me,” Jones said. “You never show your opponent that you're beat or you're beating them. You can have that fire inside. Just don't show that. People used to say they couldn't tell if I was up 10-0 or down 10-0. Against Atlanta, I gave up eight runs in the first inning, kicked a container of bubble gum in the air and it hit me in the face with the TV camera right there,” Jones said. It embarrassed me. I said that's not who I am and I've gotta be better than that. Kids are watching. I don't want them to see that.”


New SABR Bio by Mark Simon:



https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bobby-jones-2/https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/bobby-jones-2/


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Someone on a Bulletin Board I hang out on wanted to know about a new trainer where he worked out at who claimed to be a member of the Mets for ten years. He didn't recognize the name and was skeptical.



Turned out it was Dave Magadan.


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https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ny-20210214-pvtgdjdo2nadpnihf5usmntbim-story.htmlJerry Manuel in today's News, to Bradford William Davis:


His most outside-the-box idea — at least of the ideas he's told me — was forming an all-Black American baseball team separate from Team USA to compete in the World Baseball Classic, MLB's Olympic-style international tournament, which was postponed due to the pandemic.


His motivation as an MLB adviser:


”Baseball is one of the pillars of our culture, going way back. When I was very young you went to church on Sunday, and after Sunday, you went and played baseball,” Manuel, who managed the Mets from 2008-10, recalls. “I played basketball. I played football. But one of the pillars of our community was baseball. That baseball pillar has crumbled somewhat, but I still think that there's gonna be a surfing back, if you will, to where baseball comes back to what it was.”


https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ny-20210214-pvtgdjdo2nadpnihf5usmntbim-story.htmlhttps://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ny-20210214-pvtgdjdo2nadpnihf5usmntbim-story.html


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This thread generally is used to document retired ex-Mets and what they are up to in their post-baseball careers and lives.


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Edgy MD wrote:

This thread generally is used to document retired ex-Mets and what they are up to in their post-baseball careers and lives.


I'll start a new thread.

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Hizzoner Bobby V? Maybe in Stamford.


“It is an election year for some of the situations in our city, in our state — and I have given it consideration, and I'm still considering it. Let me put it that way,” Valentine said Thursday as he spoke during a virtual Senior Men's Association of Stamford meeting. “Yeah, I'm kind of considering it. It's a crazy thought, and anytime I say it to someone, they say, ‘Why the hell would you do that?' And I'm working on the answer.”


https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/local/article/Why-not-Bobby-Valentine-mulling-run-for-15961120.phphttps://www.wiltonbulletin.com/local/article/Why-not-Bobby-Valentine-mulling-run-for-15961120.php


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