Mets hire Mendoza

[G-Fafif]

Official release:

The New York Mets today announced that they have named Carlos Mendoza the 25th manager in team history, agreeing to terms on a three-year contract with a club option for a fourth year. He will be introduced in a press conference in the Piazza 31 Club at Citi Field on Tuesday, November 14 at 12 p.m. Mendoza, who turns 44 on November 27, spent the last 15 years in the Yankees organization, including the previous four as the team's major league bench coach. “We are excited to begin this new chapter of Mets baseball,” Mets owners Steve and Alex Cohen said. “Carlos brings a wealth of experience to the Mets that includes more than a decade managing and coaching in the minors as well as serving as bench coach the last four years with our cross-town rivals. Carlos is full of energy, passion and it was easy to see he'll have a great rapport with both our veteran and young players.” Mendoza, who will wear uniform #28, served two seasons (2018-2019) as the Yankees' major league quality control coach and infield coach before he was promoted to bench coach. “We promised an exhaustive search and we are thrilled to introduce Carlos as the next manager of the Mets,” President of Baseball Operations David Stearns said. “Carlos has a brilliant baseball mind and a finely honed ability to collaborate with others. He comes with a fantastic reputation as a trusted leader and someone who has been beloved in every stop of his career. Carlos knows what it takes to lead, especially here in New York, and I am looking forward to partnering with him to bring sustained success to this franchise.” Mendoza, a native of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, is the second Venezuelan-born manager in Major League history, joining Ozzie Guillén. He served as the bench coach for Venezuela during the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Additionally, Mendoza managed the Cardenales de Lara of the Venezuelan Winter League in 2021 and 2022. He had previously been their beach coach for the 2017-2018 campaign. “I couldn't be more excited to manage this tremendous franchise,” Mendoza said. “I want Mets fans to know that I will pour every ounce of energy into this job and we share a common goal of bringing a championship to Queens. I'm proud to represent Venezuela and the Mets and I'm grateful Steve, Alex and David gave me this wonderful opportunity.” Mendoza was the Yankees' lower level field coordinator in 2017 and infield coordinator from 2013-17. He managed Charleston, the Yankees' Single-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League in 2012. He managed the Gulf Coast League Yankees to the 2011 championship. Mendoza coached with short-season Single-A Staten Island in the New York-Penn League in 2009 and with Charleston in 2010. He served as the Scottsdale Scorpions manager in the Arizona Fall League in 2012 and 2016. Mendoza was the bench coach for the Gigantes de Carolina in the Puerto Rican Winter League during the 2014-15 campaign. Mendoza played 10 minor league seasons (1997-2009) as an infielder in the San Francisco Giants and Yankees organizations as well as a three-years for the independent Pensacola Pelicans (2004-2006). He was originally signed by the Giants as a non-drafted free agent in 1996. Carlos and his wife, Francis, have two sons, Adrian and Andres.

[nymr83]

=kcmets post_id=140717 time=1699407189 user_id=53]
Has a formal introduction been announced yet? Ya know, like with cameras,

mics and silly organizational yibber yabber?

[roger_that]

Dunno how accurate this report is

, but I really dislike framing ANYTHING, even positive stuff, in terms of a Yankee perspective.

[roger_that]

Mark Healey claims it's an inaccurate report.

[Edgy MD]

"Next question ... you in the back?"



"Yes, hi. Edgy MD, Crane Pool Companion?"



"No need for formalities, Mr. MD. You have a question?"



"Yes. Who the fuck is Ben Yoel?"



"Perhaps I should clarify with regard to formalities. Let's still try and maintain some decorum, this being a professional, public forum and all."



"I'm sorry. Who the fuck is Ben Yoel, Sir?"

Edited November 14, 2023 by Guest

[metirish]

Is that the same Mark Healey who used to post here ? IIRC he didn't like being questioned on anything

[A Boy Named Seo]

Edgy MD wrote: "Next question ... you in the back?" "Yes, hi. Edgy MD, Crane Pool Companion?" "No need for formalities, Mr. MD. You have a question?" "Yes. Who the fuck is Ben Yoel?" "Perhaps I should clarify with regard to formalities. Let's still try and maintain some decorum, this being a professional, public forum and all." "I'm sorry. Who the fuck is Ben Yoel, Sir?"

Can't you see he has a blue checkmark?!?

[MFS62]

My question from the back of the room:

"Does this hiring mean that the Mets will be able to hit with runners in scoring position?"



"Next question".



Later

[metirish]

[stevejrogers]

Edgy MD wrote: I don't care about the Yankees. Nor do I think the Mets "relied" on the Yankees in any meaningful way when they hired Buck Showalter, for instance. It's a factual question, and not particularly concerned with how much you care or don't care about it. I find it very odd, damned peculiar in fact, that the Mets have hired so many former Yankees managers, coaches, players to manage their team over the decades, especially considering the animosity that has consistently existed between the teams' fans. It's almost an admission of the Mets' inferiority to the Yankees, a confession that they would, to paraphrase Willie Randolph, like to export the Yankees' winning ways to their sad losing franchise. Just as a matter of policy, I'd rather they had far fewer ex-Yankees managing the Mets rather than far more than you might expect. Have the Yankees ever hired a former Mets' manager, coach, or player to manage their team? Probably once or twice, which would merely be what the odds would dictate, given the number of major league teams. I'd prefer a policy that promotes former Mets, and former ex-other MLB teams, before hiring so extensively managers with a Yankee pedigree. Maybe that's just me.

Dallas Green (player), TECHNICALLY (as in place of previous coaching and managerial employment) Yogi Berra, Joe Torre (both player and manager), TECHNICALLY (as in place of previous coaching and managerial employment) Mel Stottlemyre, Don Zimmer (player, also an ex-Red Sox skipper), Lee Mazzilli…

[ashie62]

Carlos Mendoza is introduced and seems like a decent guy



Saying the right things about culture and preparation



Personally, I feel most managers these days are pulled from a cookie cutter and report to the analytics guys on day one

[roger_that]

Edgy MD wrote: I don't care about the Yankees. Nor do I think the Mets "relied" on the Yankees in any meaningful way when they hired Buck Showalter, for instance. It's a factual question, and not particularly concerned with how much you care or don't care about it. I find it very odd, damned peculiar in fact, that the Mets have hired so many former Yankees managers, coaches, players to manage their team over the decades, especially considering the animosity that has consistently existed between the teams' fans. It's almost an admission of the Mets' inferiority to the Yankees, a confession that they would, to paraphrase Willie Randolph, like to export the Yankees' winning ways to their sad losing franchise. Just as a matter of policy, I'd rather they had far fewer ex-Yankees managing the Mets rather than far more than you might expect. Have the Yankees ever hired a former Mets' manager, coach, or player to manage their team? Probably once or twice, which would merely be what the odds would dictate, given the number of major league teams. I'd prefer a policy that promotes former Mets, and former ex-other MLB teams, before hiring so extensively managers with a Yankee pedigree. Maybe that's just me. Dallas Green (player), TECHNICALLY (as in place of previous coaching and managerial employment) Yogi Berra, Joe Torre (both player and manager), TECHNICALLY (as in place of previous coaching and managerial employment) Mel Stottlemyre, Don Zimmer (player, also an ex-Red Sox skipper), Lee Mazzilli…

That's good. Thanks for the work.



Yogi kinda cancels himself out, since he's on both lists, as does Green, as both managed the Yankees first, though Clueless Joe is the most prominent counter-example. Green and Zimmer were the briefest of Mets, and Zimmer never managed the Yankees. Mazzilli never managed the Yankees. So you've got Joe as your only Yankee manager who had previously played (fairly briefly) for the Mets and had also managed them before managing the Yankees.



On the other side, you've got Stengel, perhaps the most famous Yankee manager of all, Yogi (who kinda cancels himself out, as stated, but I think is far more famous as a longterm Yankee player, coach and manager than as a Met, but okay), and Green (also cancels himself out, a brief Mets player and a Yankee manager before taking the Mets' job), Randolph, Showalter, and now Mendoza. By my count that's six ex-Yankees who became Mets' managers (counting Yogi and Green), and three ex-Mets (counting Yogi and Green) who became Yankee managers.



Or four and one, not counting Yogi and Green.



Of the five Mets' managers who've gotten us to the World Series, only one (Yogi) has any Yankee taint to him--Gil, Davey, Bobby V., and Terry C. never wore a single pinstripe in their lives. And of the two who've won a Series, neither has a whiff of the Bronx. We do very well hiring from outside the Steinbrenner training camp.

[Edgy MD]

Carlos Mendoza never played for the Yankees and never managed the Yankees.



You are retrofitting your logic to suit your conclusion, so much so that you had to be reminded that Joe Torre managed the Yankees after the Mets.

[metirish]

Mets Twitter is abuzz after Mendoza mentioned how much he respects Willie Randolph, now a rumor has started that he might be under consideration for bench coach

[batmagadanleadoff]

As what? As a second baseman? Or as a manager? Hope it's the former and not the latter.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: You are retrofitting your logic to suit your conclusion, so much so that you had to be reminded that Joe Torre managed the Yankees after the Mets.

It's moronic. So much taint managing for an org that hasn't had a losing season in more than three decades. /rollseyes

[roger_that]

This seems better sourced:

[batmagadanleadoff]

Casey Stengel had the best managerial run in baseball history managing the Yankees and then the worst ever as the Mets manager. Not that Stengel's Mets stint should be judged based on his on-the-field accomplishments. Same for Joe Torre: one of the best managerial runs ever as Yankee manager and a dreadful run as manager of the Mets.



Some Yankee taint.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I don't know if his story behind his uniform number is true. But it was funny.

[stevejrogers]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=141074 time=1700010792 user_id=68]
Casey Stengel had the best managerial run in baseball history managing the Yankees and then the worst ever as the Mets manager. Not that Stengel's Mets stint should be judged based on his on-the-field accomplishments. Same for Joe Torre: one of the best managerial runs ever as Yankee manager and a dreadful run as manager of the Mets.



Some Yankee taint.

[stevejrogers]

=roger_that post_id=141055 time=1699997834 user_id=128]
I find it very odd, damned peculiar in fact, that the Mets have hired so many former Yankees managers, coaches, players to manage their team over the decades, especially considering the animosity that has consistently existed between the teams' fans. It's almost an admission of the Mets' inferiority to the Yankees, a confession that they would, to paraphrase Willie Randolph, like to export the Yankees' winning ways to their sad losing franchise. Just as a matter of policy, I'd rather they had far fewer ex-Yankees managing the Mets rather than far more than you might expect.



Of the five Mets' managers who've gotten us to the World Series, only one (Yogi) has any Yankee taint to him--Gil, Davey, Bobby V., and Terry C. never wore a single pinstripe in their lives. And of the two who've won a Series, neither has a whiff of the Bronx. We do very well hiring from outside the Steinbrenner training camp.

[Edgy MD]

Terry Collins was also a longtime Dodger minor-league player, manager, and for a time, player-manager. He spent 5+ years managing their AAA club in Albuquerque and was considered for a time to be Tommy Lasorda's likely successor.

[kcmets]

Hell, Bobby Valentine (a well liked Mets manager) married the spawn

of Lasorda and did alright in most people's books.



(I'm sure there's nothing spawn-like about Mrs. Vee)

[Benjamin Grimm]

Actually, he married the spawn of Ralph Branca.



As I recall, it even said "spawn of Ralph Branca" on the wedding invitations.

[kcmets]

Who am I thinking of, Bobby married Ralph Branca's daughter?

[Benjamin Grimm]

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cu12cvRxFxo/WDYT7qIwAII/AAAAAAAACGE/mOyME5O3VHs4JbeKlotLk3f5xIhu0dF5QCLcB/s320/IMG_3899.JPG>

[stevejrogers]

And if you want to go down further the ridiculousness road of excluding those from hated franchises, or eras of them in some cases (see Beltran, Carlos 2017 Astros) for prominent managing, front office and coaching staff hiring and you'll see Davey Johnson (and Frank Cashen as an architect, and even longtime Weaver coach George Bamberger) from the vaunted, but probably loathed in many circles besides their AL East opponents, “Oriole Way” dynasty of the mid 1960s through the early 1980s.

[kcmets]

I botched that rather well!



Everyone go back to your bickering, nothing to see here...

[MFS62]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=141074 time=1700010792 user_id=68]
Same for Joe Torre: one of the best managerial runs ever as Yankee manager and a dreadful run as manager of the Mets.

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