Special Guest Coachie

[Edgy MD]

Not that there's any room left in the dugout, but if the Mets are going to call up a September guest staffer as they have in past years (Oberkfell, Teufel, Backman twice), maybe it's time Frank Viola got a taste. He's kind of earned it, and the Mets suddenly have a lot of pitchers that he's seen more of than Warthan has.

But maybe that's the sort of thing that second-, third-, and fourth-place Mets teams do.

[G-Fafif]

You got your answer: Jose Leger, Sand Gnats manager, to wear No. 60 and sit on the bench the rest of the way, per the postgame notes.

[G-Fafif]

That puzzled me too. Apparently it's erstwhile Savannah Sand Gnats manager Jos� Leger, who has been an unpublicized September addition to the Mets coaching corps.

Now that Jose Leger has had quicker impact than any coach in Mets history: appointed on a Tuesday, clinching on a Saturday, he won't be unpublicized for long.