Callaway Seeds (split from Who will manage the Mets?)

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http://m.mlb.com/cle/roster/coach/209068/mickey-callaway

Edited October 22, 2017 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

Who's the leader of the club
That used to play at Shea?
M-I-C K-E-Y
C-A-ALLO-WAY!

[Frayed Knot]

Well count me as surprised, but then again I had no concept of Mickey Callaway until this past week.
Have zero memory of him as a player (or a playa) either.


Michael Christopher Callaway; 42 y/o from Memphis, Tennessee and the University of Mississippi
16th round draft pick out of HS by the Giants and later 7th round by Tampa Bay out of college in 1996
40 games as a ML'er -- 20 as a starter/20 in relief -- totaling 130 IP spread over parts of 5 seasons with TBR, ANA, and TEX with a fairly unsightly career ERA & WHIP
Also pitched 3 seasons in Korea and was dogging it out in an independent league in Laredo, Texas as recently as 2008


They've got a two day window until the WS starts up again so I guess we'll hear something official on Monday.



oe: (per mlb.com) -- Mickey Callaway will become the Mets' new manager, according to multiple reports on Sunday.
A three-year deal is expected to be finalized on Sunday and could be announced on Monday.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Get to know Mickey Callaway:

[youtube:1sgh5l05]emzJS7J-0PA[/youtube:1sgh5l05] [youtube:1sgh5l05]pnhgSoQz2vs[/youtube:1sgh5l05]

[G-Fafif]

All the way with Callaway!

[MFS62]

Joe Schultz.
Does he have any managerial experience at any level?

Later

Edited October 22, 2017 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

In that second YouTube video that I posted above, he reveals that he was named after Mickey Mantle and his brother was named after Casey Stengel.

[HahnSolo]

A hire so fine it blows my mind.

Can't understand the hire? What a pity

[MFS62]

HahnSolo wrote: A hire so fine it blows my mind.

Why are you so in favor of it?
Later

[Valadius]

I... don't know who this is. All I know is it's not Joe McEwing.

[Edgy MD]

Callaway has never appeared against the Mets, and in fact, seems have never appeared against any National League team, with the loan exception of his MLB debut, in which he faced Montreal on an interleague road trip.

That also appears to have been his only time at the plate as a major- or minor-leaguer, and he ended up going 2-3 with an RBI against Dustin Hermanson. So, while I fear he may have a tough learning curve coming over to the nine-man league, a .667 batting average is a nice career mark.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MON/MON199906120.shtml

[Guest 41Forever]

I'd say that if our strength is starting pitching, and our main beef with the previous manager was his misuse of bullpen arms, a successful pitching coach could be a good guy.

[Edgy MD]

Mickey becomes only the third former pitcher to become a Mets manager, and the first who started as much as he relieved.

He breaks a string of five straight former infielders to manager the team, going back 21 seasons!

Starting Pitchers
Mickey Callaway (2018–????)

Relief Pitchers
George Bamberger (1982–1983)
Dallas Green (1993–1996)

Catchers
Wes Westrum (1965–1967)
Yogi Berra (1972–1975)
Joe Torre (1977–1981)
Jeff Torborg (1992–1993)

Infielders
Salty Parker (1967)
Gil Hodges (1968–1971)
Roy McMillan (1975)
Davey Johnson (1984–1990)
Bud Harrelson (1990–1991)
Mike Cubbage (1991)
Bobby Valentine (1996–2002)
Art Howe (2003–2004)
Willie Randolph (2005–2008)
Jerry Manuel (2008–2010)
Terry Collins (2011–2017)

Outfielders
Casey Stengel (1962–1965)
Joe Frazier (1976–1977)
Frank Howard (1983)

[Guest 41Forever]

Looking at that list, not many Mets managers who became ex-Mets managers did additional managing. Torre, Davey and Bobby V -- and I think that's it.

[Edgy MD]

Westrum would go on to manage the Giants in the mid-seventies. And Torborg had a few seasons with the Marlins, 2002-2003.

Yogi would have an infamous second tenure with the Yankees in the mid-eighties.

[Guest 41Forever]

Edgy MD wrote: Westrum would go on to manage the Giants in the mid-seventies. And Torborg had a few seasons with the Marlins, 2002-2003. Yogi would have an infamous second tenure with the Yankees in the mid-eighties.

Oh man, how could I forget Yogi's infamous "Yogi's Back" cover of SI. Good calls.

[ashie62]

I'd think Mickey learned alot from Francona.

Guy was a helluva pitching coach, ask Trevor Bauer, and maybe MC can sprinkle the staff with pixie dust.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Even though I had never heard of this guy, like, three days ago, I'm pleased with this hire. The buzz is that he's smart, and that's a trait that I want. I like that he's young. And he also seems personally likeable.

[youtube:dgerdbom]pnhgSoQz2vs[/youtube:dgerdbom]

I also liked his answer to the question posed to him at around the 6th minute of this video. Nothing earth-shaking, but it shows some of his thought process, I think in a good way.

[HahnSolo]

MFS62 wrote: HahnSolo wrote: A hire so fine it blows my mind. Why are you so in favor of it? Later

I didn't think I'd get a Toni Basil joke past anybody here.

[Edgy MD]

I like that he knows what it's like to win 22 in a row.

[Gwreck]

Former pitchers as managers seems like a rare occurrence. Currently, there's Bud Black; and Bryan Price with the Reds...and I think that's it. (John Farrell was a pitcher too).

[G-Fafif]

I'm stoked that the choice was Callaway. I would have been stoked had it been any of the other finalists. To go stokeless would be needlessly cynical considering most of the others hadn't proven they couldn't manage at the major league level and the one guy who had some experience hadn't definitively disqualified himself from another chance.

Bring the man on and let him do his thing. We'll figure out whether it was a great choice in a couple of hundred games.

[batmagadanleadoff]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/andrew-miller-doesnt-have-any-saves-and-hes-the-best-reliever-in-baseball/

[Benjamin Grimm]

Geez... 42 years old. He's the first Mets manager to be younger than me, and he's younger than me by twelve years! Also the first Mets manager who is younger than the franchise itself.

[metirish]

Like many others never heard of him until recently

[Theoldmole]

[Frayed Knot]

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For a nickname we'll call him Minnie the Moocher

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He and Yo might have a lot to talk about?



I'm optimistic. Because what's the other option?

[Mex17]

Do you think that there will be a presser today or do MLB rules prevent that until after the World Series?

[Mex17]

The guy ascended quickly as a coach after deciding to retire as a player, didn't he?

There is a life lesson in there somewhere. Sometimes you toil and toil doing what you love but the thing isn't quite loving you back. You flame out in MLB and then go to Asia for five years because you love it so much. Then, you make an adjustment, and find yourself in the career path that you were meant to be.