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Mets official 2023 coaching staff release. FLUSHING, N.Y., January 12, 2023 – The New York Mets today announced their complete 2023 coaching staff under Manager Buck Showalter. Mets 2023 Coaching Staff Coach Title Danny Barnes Assistant Major League Coach Jeremy Barnes Hitting Coach Eric Chavez Bench Coach Dom Chiti Bullpen Coach Joey Cora Infield and Third Base Coach Jeremy Hefner Pitching Coach Eric Hinske Assistant Hitting Coach Wayne Kirby Outfield and First Base Coach Glenn Sherlock Catching and Strategy Coach Returning to the staff in 2023 will be Danny Barnes, Jeremy Barnes, Eric Chavez, Joey Cora, Jeremy Hefner, Wayne Kirby and Glenn Sherlock. Chavez, who was the team's hitting coach in 2022, will now serve as bench coach. Jeremy Barnes, who held the role of assistant hitting coach last year, will now serve as the club's hitting coach. Sherlock will continue on as the team's catching and strategy coach. Dom Chiti joins the organization as the team's bullpen coach, while Eric Hinske will serve as the club's assistant hitting coach. Dom Chiti, 64, joins the Mets as the bullpen coach. This will be his third time working under Showalter after serving in roles together in Baltimore and Texas. Chiti spent the past two seasons with the Los Angeles Angels in the same capacity. He has served in various roles with the Atlanta Braves (1996-01, 2009-13, 2017-20), Orioles (1982-88, 2014-16), Rangers (2002-08) and Cleveland (1989-1995). Chiti played six seasons in the minor leagues for the Braves (1976-80) and Orioles (1981) after being selected by Atlanta in the second round of the 1976 First-Year Player Draft. Eric Hinske, 45, enters his first season with the Mets as assistant hitting coach. The Wisconsin native most recently spent three seasons (2019-21) with the Arizona Diamondbacks in the same role. He worked with General Manager Billy Eppler in 2018, serving as the hitting coach for the Los Angeles Angels. Hinske began his coaching career with the Chicago Cubs, serving as the first base coach in 2014 before becoming the assistant hitting coach from 2015-17. He was originally selected in the 17th round of the 1998 First-Year Player Draft by the Cubs and spent 12 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays (2002-06), Boston Red Sox (2006-07), Tampa Bay Rays (2008), Pittsburgh Pirates (2009), New York Yankees (2009), Atlanta Braves (2010-12) and Diamondbacks (2013). Hinske was named the AL Rookie of the Year in 2002 as a member of the Blue Jays after batting .279/.365/.481 with 99 runs, 38 doubles, two triples, 24 home runs, 84 RBI, 13 steals and an .845 OPS.

The thread for onetime Mets finding new baseball landing spots in 2023 comes off the bench with some Super Joe McEwing action.

That "one team" quote is fabricated. From a parody account -- the Porch (not the Post).

From ESPN: Discussions focused on guarantee language. The Mets were fine keeping the 12-year, $315 million terms -- but wanted only half of it guaranteed. Over the final six years of the deal, according to sources, the Mets proposed their medical staff would conduct a physical on Correa at the end of each season -- regardless of his health during the season. The results of the physical would then determine whether the next year of the contract was picked up. Boras wanted a deal closer to that of ones he'd negotiated in the past -- for J.D. Martinez and J.D. Drew with the Red Sox, Magglio Ordonez and Pudge Rodriguez with the Tigers -- containing provisions for specific injuries. With Martinez, for example, if he spent 60 days on the injured list with an injury related to the foot about which the Red Sox were concerned, they could convert the final two guaranteed years of his deal to mutual options. The Mets stuck to their six-year, $157.5 million offer, and last week, with the sides making little progress, Boras ramped up his engagement with the Twins. Minnesota, more comfortable with Correa's medicals after seeing him up close for a year, cognizant that the guarantee for him had taken a hit on account of the injury, pounced. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35420204/mlb-correa-free-agency-line-2022-23https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/35420204/mlb-correa-free-agency-line-2022-23

Hope the purchasers or gift recipients like Mets baseball for Mets baseball's sake.

Ai no Correa That's where I am You send me there Your dream is my command Ai no Correa I find myself No other thought Just you and nothing else You and nothing else [media=youtube]fXmmWBzS-_o[/media]

So take a letter, Mejia Address it to my wife Tell her I'm not comin' home Gotta start a new life

“Eduardo, baby, we've always loved you!”

Johnny Cueto, around long enough to have pitched at Shea, signs with the Marlins.

A little well-deserved attention for Sr. Estrada from mlb.com. Though Estrada may be a footnote in history to MLB fans, he is a Hall of Famer in his home country. "He's one of the best in the history of Mexican baseball," Horacio Ibarra Álvarez, the historian at the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame (or Salón de la Fama del Béisbol Mexicano), told MLB.com over Zoom. "Mexico has a summer and a winter league and he holds records in both." https://www.mlb.com/news/frank-estrada-the-first-mexican-catcher-in-the-major-leagueshttps://www.mlb.com/news/frank-estrada-the-first-mexican-catcher-in-the-major-leagues

One gets the feeling the News was taking its cue from SNY's deGrom reaction shot, which served to enhance the significance of Nimmo's catch from really nice play to season-defining moment if you were watching that night, as I imagine some in the paper's sports department were as they considered the back page.

Putting a wrap on Mets Pop Culture sightings and such for 2022 via the http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2023/01/07/the-2022-oscars-cap-awards/ eleventh annual Oscar's Cap Awards, presented by Faith and Fear in Flushing, the blog that likes to watch TV and take copious notes. Thanks to anybody here who inadvertently contributed.

Awesome 1970s reliever Bill Campbell, 74. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/bill-campbell-passes-away.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/bill-campbell-passes-away.html

Nate Colbert, the first great Padre, 76. https://www.mlb.com/news/nate-colbert-dieshttps://www.mlb.com/news/nate-colbert-dies

Steve Cishek has retired. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/steve-cishek-to-retire.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/12/steve-cishek-to-retire.html

2015 World Series villain Eric Hosmer is a 2023 Chicago Cub.

If you find bullpen depth sexy, get excited for the signing of T.J. McFarland. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/mets-sign-t-j-mcfarland-to-minor-league-deal.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/01/mets-sign-t-j-mcfarland-to-minor-league-deal.html

“The never say die Mets finish the season on an INCREDIBLE note!”

His season-ending home run on the last swing of 2019 clinched Dom a championship of the Mets fan's heart.

Combined Met sWAR (s as in spiritual) for the spotlighted 23s: neither here nor there, but mostly not here even when they were, as if giving them 23 was somebody's way of telling them, “you're OK, but so are many.”

As I stood and applauded Jeff McNeil's batting title during the final game of the year, I couldn't shake the feeling it had come out of nowhere. Jayson Stark, with some help, confirms it was not just a feeling. THE UNLIKELY BATTING CHAMP — Loyal reader Eric Orns has been helping me unearth epic Strange But Trueness for years. But he outdid himself this year, when he pointed out that the Mets' Jeff McNeil just won the National League batting title even though … he never led the league for even one day from April through September … and also … as late as Sept. 21, he was still trailing Freddie Freeman by 16 points (.330-.314). So I asked my friends from STATS Perform if we'd ever seen a batting champ like this. And Eric will be delighted to know that question almost blew up their computers. Turns out that looking at every player's batting average on every day of every season is hard. Who knew! But anyway, after multitudinous numbers of hours of research from STATS, the answer is … The April-September part: Just FYI, I'm throwing out those tricky situations where a player led the league but then dropped out when he no longer had enough playing time to qualify. (Buster Posey/Melky Cabrera in 2012 comes to mind.) So if we go with that, it makes McNeil the first batting champ not to lead his league at any point in April through September since … Harry Heilmann in 1925! (Heilmann didn't pass Tris Speaker until the last day of the season, Oct. 4.) The 16-point comeback part: Hoo boy, what a question! We'll spare you how complicated that one was to figure out and just let you know that … only one batting champ in the last 111 years ever came from farther back than McNeil's 16-point hole after games of Sept. 21. In 1911, Honus Wagner stormed from 17 points behind to beat out Chief Meyers, for his seventh (and final) batting title. https://theathletic.com/4035149/2022/12/29/mlb-2022-weird-injuries-wild-postseason/https://theathletic.com/4035149/2022/12/29/mlb-2022-weird-injuries-wild-postseason/