Mets Roster Central: Searching for Senseis

[Edgy MD]

As the annual reshuffling of the Mets coaching deck occurs, gleaning meaning from the moves is tempting, but it can be harder than reading Bigelow Tea leaves.  We watch a lot of baseball, and some of us watch a LOT of baseball, but we don't see too much coaching, and if we're honest, we can glean little insight into the coach/player dynamic.  But pay attention long enough, and patterns emerge.

Or delusions.  That happens too.

Transactions, 10/6/2026

GOING	GOING	GOING	NEUTRAL
Non-Tendered	Non-Tendered	Non-Tendered	Projected to Transfer from Hitting Coach
Hitting Coord.	Strategy Coach	Bat'g Pract. Pitcher	Hitting Coord.
Jeff Albert	Danny Barnes	Kevin Mahoney	Troy Snitker
R/R DoB: 1992-08-16 High Level: MLB (2026)	L/R DoB: 1989-10021 High Level: MLB (2026)	L/R DoB: 1987-05-11 High Level: MLB (2026)	R/R DoB: 1988-12-05 High Level: MLB (2026)
COMING	COMING	COMING
Projected to Be Promoted from Syracuse	Projected to Transfer from Director of Defense, Baserunning, & Gameplay	Projected to Be Promoted from St. Lucie Bench/Assistant Hitting Coach
Hitting Coach	Strategy Coach	Bat'g Pract. Pitcher
Nate Irving	Tucker Frawley	Jonathon Cramman
R/R DoB: 1992-10-17 High Level: MLB (2024)	S/R DoB: 1984-05-08 High Level: Development (2026)	R/R DoB: 1991-03-23 High Level: A (2026)

The highest-profile Met coachie to not get asked back is Jeff Albert. While repeating the caveat that we don't know what's going down, this comes as something of a surprise at Met Roster Central, as much of the 2026 offensive failure came from veterans — presumably more set in their ways and less sensitive one way or the other to the whims of coaching — while rookies Carson Benge (after needing an April mulligan) and AJ Ewing prospered.

Maybe it was the struggles of mid-career-types like Brett Baty and Mark Vientos that did him in.  Francisco Alvarez, too.  That's our theory.

That Mets previous hitting coordinator Eric Chavez, rather than finding new MLB work like many of his fellow 2025 veterans, spent much of 2026 telling everyone who would listen that the Mets (a) generally had their heads up their butts as an organization, and (b) that splitting the hitting coach role was counterproductive.  Now that his successor has followed him into the "ex-" column among Met coaches, we can expect him to double down.

Anyhow, we're putting our kranepools down on junior hitting coach Troy Snitker elevating to senior status.  Troy has not only the name-brand Snitker pedigree, but he has the track record, having been co-hitting coach (with Alex Cintron) for the 106-game/World Championship-winning 2022 Astros.

Who gets his junior chair is more likely to come from outside the organization, but Nate Irving is an organizational guy on the rise, having coached the superb 2025 Binghamton squad, who were near the league lead in pretty much all offensive categories, and then moved up to Syracuse in 2026.  He's coached Ewing and Benge in the minors as well as many of the prospects who will hopefully follow them.

Danny Barnes is a tough loss, as the former Princeton Tiger represented an organizational commitment to brains over brawn and the good old boy hiring network.  Danny, 36, had started with the ambigous title of "coaching assistant," and the team continuously re-worked the role to suit the man.  He spent five years with the big-league team in multiple roles under four different managers. He was even put in charge of organizing the team's MLB spring training camp.

With the manager coming out of the development staff, it is certainly easy to see the new strategy coach guy (assuming there is one) coming from there.  Among other things, Tucker Frawley has also had a broad portfolio that could serve him well at helping implement organizational strategy at the big league level, and was praised for his work with Mitch Voit,

Who knows how a batting practice pitcher gets fired, other than losing the strike zone, and figuring who his most likely replacement might be is clearly a shot in the dark, but we stayed within the organization, and our arrow struck St. Lucie bench coach/assistant hitting coach Jonathon Cramman. You have to go pretty low in the chain to find somebody who will take such a narrow role.  The Haringey, London, UK-born Crammy managed the Under-23 squad for Great Britain, so having had that sort of authority over young men, along with a smart British accent, could bring some authority to keep him from being a mere lackey. 

He could also bring some reverse-Ted Lasso fun to the clubhouse, along with an appearance of the Union Jack on our roster grids.

Mets Roster Central looks forward to updates involving players, but it'd b good to see Andy Green's braintrust in early in the offseason, even if they fail to bring back Antoan Richardson.

Your Projected 2027 New York Mets

	Starting Pitchers
	Sean Manaea	Nolan McLean	Christian Scott	Zach Thornton	Jonah Tong
	R/L DoB: 1992-02-01	R/R DoB: 2001-07-24	R/R DoB: 1999-06-15	L/L DoB: 2002-01-17	R/R DoB: 2003-06-19
Relief Pitchers
Chayce McDermott	Tobias Myers	Cionel Pérez	Kodai Senga	Robert Stock	Austin Warren	Devin Williams
L/R DoB: 1998-08-22	R/R DoB: 1998-08-05	R/L DoB: 1996-04-21	L/R DoB: 1993-01-30	L/R DoB: 1989-11-21	R/R DoB: 1996-02-05	R/R DoB: 1994-09-21
Relief Pitchers	Catchers		Infielders
Jefry Yan	Francisco Alvarez	Luís Torrens	Bo Bichette	Francisco Lindor	Ronny Mauricio	Jorge Polanco
L/L DoB: 1996-08-17	R/R DoB: 2001-11-01	R/R DoB: 1996-05-02	R/R DoB: 1998-03-05	S/R DoB: 1993-11-14	S/R DoB: 2001-04-04	S/R DoB: 1999-11-13
Infielders			Outfielders
Marcus Semien	Mark Vientos	Jared Young	Brett Baty	Carson Benge	A.J. Ewing	Juan Soto
R/R DoB: 1990-09-17	R/R DoB: 1993-12-11	L/R DoB: 1995-07-09	L/R DoB: 1999-11-13	L/R DoB: 2003-01-20	L/R DoB: 2004-08-10	L/L DoB: 1998-10-25

Also on 40-Player Roster

Starting Pitchers	Relief Pitchers
Tylor Megill	Philip Abner	Daniel Duarte	Reed Garrett	Justin Hagenman	Nathan Lavender	Dedniel Núñez	Jonathan Pintaro	Dylan Ross
R/R DoB: 1995-07-28	L/L DoB: 2002-05-04	R/R DoB: 1996-12-04	R/R DoB: 1993-01-02	R/R DoB: 1996-10-07	L/L DoB: 2000-01-20	R/R DoB: 1996-06-05	R/R DoB: 1997-11-07	R/R DoB: 2000-09-01
Relief Pitchers		Catchers	Infielders			Outfielders
Jack Weisen- berger	Cameron Weston	Hayden Senger	Christian Cairo	Christopher Morel	Eric Wagaman	Nick Morabito	"Cristian Pache "
R/R DoB: 1997-10-08	R/R DoB: 2000-08-27	R/R DoB: 1997-04-03	R/R DoB: 2001-06-11	R/R DoB: 1999-06-24	R/R DoB: 1997-08-14	R/R DoB: 2003-05-07	R/R DoB: 2020-08-21

Your Projected Mets Coaching Staff

Manager	Bench Coach	Pitching Coach	Hitting Coord.	Third Base Coach	First Base Coach	Bullpen Coach	Ass't Pitch. Coach
Andy Green	Kai Correa	Justin Willard	Troy Snitker	Tim Leiper	Gilbert Gomez	José Rosado	Dan McKinney
DoB: 1977-07-07	DoB: 1989-07-14	DoB: 1990-09-09	DoB: 1988-12-05	DoB: 1996-07-19	DoB: 1992-03-08	DoB: 1974-11-09	DoB: 1989-06-06
Hitting Coach	Strategy Coach	Catching Coach	Coaching Assistant	Bat'g Pract. Pitcher	Equip. Manager	Bullpen Catchers	Bullpen Catchers
Nate Irving	Tucker Frawley	J.P. Arencibia	Rafael Fernandez	Jonathon Cramman	Kevin Kierst	Eric Langill	Dave Racaniello
DoB: 33894	DoB: 1984-05-08	DoB: 1986-01-05	DoB: 1988-08-03	DoB: 1991-03-23	DoB: 1964-07-09	DoB: 1979-04-09	DoB: 1978-06-03

Your Projected Mets Training Staff

Director of Player Health	Head Athletic Trainer	Assistant Athletic Trainer	Recond. Coordinator	Recond. Therapist	Head Performance Coach	Assistant Performance Coach	Performance Coordinator	Soft Tissue Specialist
Brian Chicklo	Joseph Golia	Bryan Baca	Sean Bardanett	Josh Bickel	Dustin Clarke	Tanner Miracle	Jeremy Chiang	Hiroto Kawamura
DoB:1972-07-17	DoB:1978-??-??	DoB:Circa 1980	DoB:1988-06-23	DoB:1996-??-??	DoB:1987-??-??	DoB:1991-??-??	DoB:????-??-??	DoB:1962-07-19

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Juan Soto looks pi**ed at something.

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