Big staff changes

[Guest 41Forever]

Most of the coaches and Ray Ramirez out, too.

FLUSHING, N.Y., October 3, 2017 — The New York Mets today announced the following staff changes.
Terry Collins has accepted the position of Special Assistant to General Manager Sandy Alderson.
Dan Warthen, who has been the Mets Pitching Coach since 2008, will not return as New York’s Pitching Coach, and has been offered another role in the organization. Bench Coach Dick Scott, First Base Coach Tom Goodwin, Bullpen Coach Ricky Bones will be given permission to speak to other teams, pending the selection of a new manager.
The Mets will retain coaches Kevin Long and Pat Roessler along with Third Base Coach Glenn Sherlock who is already under contract for 2018.
Ray Ramirez, who has been the Mets Head Trainer since the 2005 season, will not return in 2018. The rest of the training and conditioning staff will remain with the club for the 2018 season.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Shouldn't the new head of the training and conditioning staff be able to decide
who stays and who goes?

[MFS62]

d'Kong76 wrote: Shouldn't the new head of the training and conditioning staff be able to decide who stays and who goes?

Yes.
After all the injuries, I expected that someone in the training staff would take a fall. But I thought it would be the conditioning/ exercise guy.
Later

[Ceetar]

d'Kong76 wrote: Shouldn't the new head of the training and conditioning staff be able to decide who stays and who goes?

Probably a lot of them aren't contract employees and can be let go at will.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I know Barwis isn't an employee, but I'd be surprised if our association w/ that turd continued.

[Edgy MD]

He is an employee, and the idea that Ramirez goes and Barwis stays is an anathema. It's an execration.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah I'd like to see Barwis get whacked but he has Jeff's seal of approval and I'm sure they look at him as a kind of profit center.

Ramirez was one of Omar's first hires, dating back to his Texas Rangers days and the questionable training methods era and he arrived when the Mets were doing that "PREVENTION + RECOVERY" act. Beltran and Reyes were experimenting with blood-spinning and other crazy shit in his era. I can't think its terrible that he's moving on. You can;t throw a rock anymore without hitting a decent athletic trainer, it would seem, and a job with a pro team has got to be one of the most desired in the field. It's inexcusable they'd employ guys who aren't among the best in the world.