Flying Coach

[G-Fafif]

The Mets are booking most of their 2021 coaching staff for travel far from Citi Field, per a tweeting Martino.

Sources: Mets coaches Dave Jauss, Ricky Bones, Gary DiSarcina, Jeremy Accardo, Tony Tarasco and Brian Schneider free to seek other jobs. Hitting coaches reassigned to minors. Pitching coach Jeremy Hefner expected to remain in the organization. Mets hold a contract option on him. Hefner role and exact future still being discussed.

[Edgy MD]

Wow. It's going to be busy offseason.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It doesn't mention Quattlebottom specifically, but apparently he won't be the hitting instructor anymore but will stay in the organization.



Whatever.

[MFS62]

So, they want to teach the kids in the minors that same hitting approach that wasn't successful in the majors this year?

I always thought good results are rewarded.

Doesn't make sense.



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe he'll be working in the ticket booth at Binghamton.

[Willets Point]

Who will pitch to Alonso in the HR Derby?

[Frayed Knot]

Kind of rules out the Brian Schneider for next manager prediction.

[Edgy MD]

SAYS YOU!

[Lefty Specialist]

Clearing the decks. Now get a POBO.

[seawolf17]

This team hasn't won dick in years. Clear 'em out and start over. (Although I'm sad to see Bones go, who was almost Aljacksonian in his longevity.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember back in my bird-watching days, how thrilled I was to finally spot a tweeting martino.

[Edgy MD]

I remember in my competitive, randy young days, how thrilled I was to win some dick.

[Edgy MD]

Notable that, despite what has to be the most disastrous year health-wise in team history, there was no cultural bloodlust for the training staff as there has been in injury-plagued years past.



Is this just a question of doing a better job of managing expectations or has blaming the trainers just gone out of vogue?

[Ceetar]

nobody's bothered to learn the new trainer's name is all.

[smg58]

I don't see how Hefner stays. I'm fairly certain that, before the injury, he would have perfectly happy with being judged on his handling of DeGrom by the results.

[G-Fafif]

No matter who manages or POBOs, Jeremy Hefner will return as pitching coach (the Mets have announced).

[kcmets]

I imagine deGrom and perhaps others have at least some s(w)ay in that.

[Ceetar]

just let deGrom player/manage then.

[smg58]

Hefner was the guy who most needed to go.

[kcmets]

=Ceetar post_id=80217 time=1635269179 user_id=102]just let deGrom player/manage then.

[kcmets]

They may also have decided on a GM or po'boy already and he or she is on board

with Hefner and waiting until after World Series to make big splash announcements.

That used to be a thing in MLB, unless it was the Yankees stealing back pages of course.

[Frayed Knot]

I thought the traveling secretary was the flying coach?

[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure why Hefner most needed to go, but when they told everybody they were free to go job-huntin' except Hef, it more than foreshadowed his retention.

[Ceetar]

I don't know if this was more Rojas or something about Hefner, but the Mets starters were badly under-used in terms of pitch counts and they're gonna have to get A LOT more high-quality relievers if they intend to keep under-utilizing the starters.

[Edgy MD]

The assumption I've worked from is that it was neither Hefner nor Rojas, but organizational policy.



But I'd certainly put the manager ahead of the pitching coach in responsibility for the call when you're pulling a guy with less than 80 pitches expended. I never heard Hefner say anything about ups and downs.

[Ceetar]

'organization policy'? which GM? the first, the third? the interim guy? Somebody's personal assistant? maybe they decrypted Cohen' blockchain nonsense and it said 80 so they went with it.

[Edgy MD]

I don't know.

[Lefty Specialist]

Somebody win the Series in 4 so we can get to the important stuff.

[MFS62]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Somebody win the Series in 4 so we can get to the important stuff.

That "important stuff" better happen quickly, because a strike looms on the horizon (Dec 2), when all baseball stuff will cease.



Later

[Ceetar]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Somebody win the Series in 4 so we can get to the important stuff.

arguably we want it to go 7 so the Mets have more time to actually hire someone to do all the things they need to do.