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Buck Showalter is NL Manager of the Year. https://bbwaa.com/22-nl-mgr/https://bbwaa.com/22-nl-mgr/

Nate Fisher made the Mark Canha Game in Philadelphia on August 21 the Nate Fisher Game before Mark Canha made it the Mark Canha Game.

Mets claim Long Island's Own Stephen Ridings. FLUSHING N.Y., November, 15, 2022 – The New York Mets announced today that the club has claimed right-handed pitcher Stephen Ridings [RIY-deengs] off waivers from the New York Yankees. Ridings, 27, saw his first major league action in 2021 with the Yankees, making five relief appearances and posting a 1.80 ERA (1 ER/5.0 IP) with seven strikeouts and two walks. The Huntington, New York native spent the entire 2022 season on the 60-day Injured List with a right shoulder impingement and threw 2.0 scoreless innings with four strikeouts across two rehab outings in September. In 71 outings (19 starts) across five minor league seasons with the Cubs, Royals and Yankees organizations, the 6-foot, 8-inch righty is 12-8 with a 4.19 ERA (67 ER/144.0 IP) and 204 strikeouts.

Wilpon was grooming his son Jeff to become involved in the organization and asked a favor of Valentine as the manager prepared to hold a season-ending meeting with his coaches: Could Jeff Wilpon sit in on the meeting? Fred Wilpon wanted his son to be immersed in all aspects of the organization and told Valentine not to worry about disruption, as Jeff Wilpon would be there to listen and not talk. As Valentine recalls, the elder Wilpon insisted that Jeff Wilpon would not speak up for two years. The plan was for his son to be seen, but not heard. Valentine was fine with the arrangement. Tom Robson, the team's bench coach, had been a respected hitting coach with the Mets previously. During the coaches' meeting, Robson began speaking about the team's hitting woes, prompting Jeff Wilpon to violate his gag order. Wilpon insisted that Robson's analysis was amiss, and began interjecting his own thoughts on hitting philosophy. Wilpon cited the swing instruction he had received from some of the country's best golf professionals, whose teaching differed from what Robson was preaching. Valentine, remembering Fred Wilpon's vow that Jeff Wilpon would be seen but not heard for two years, later conveyed his disgust to the owner: "Have two years gone by already?" Valentine said to the elder Wilpon. The following day, Valentine says he was told by Fred Wilpon that he had changed his mind: Valentine was fired. --Mike Puma If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the New York Mets Dugout, Locker Room and Press Box, 2021 Pages 36-37

Also, doesn't the word "uniform" mean that players are actually supposed to be dressed the same? I thought they were supposed to be standard. When I played, we all generally looked the same. Now guys have compression sleeves, and a lot of other things. Nine guys in a lineup are dressed in nine different ways. And during the playoffs, Joe Maddon wears a beanie. I can't imagine any of the managers when I played doing that. Have a little class. --Rod Gaspar with David Russell Rod Gaspar: Miracle Met, BPB Publications, 2019 Page 202

I can still hear recently promoted Dave Telgheder laughing in an interview on WFAN over having the chance, the morning after a Mets-Marlins game in 1993, to "shut up little Chuckie Carr." It didn't seem to be said with malice. I figured they knew each other in the minors. If Carr liked to talk, he also loved to play. Check his "other" league trail on his Baseball Reference page: China, Italy, Mexico and the early Atlantic League after his NLDS homer. Also check his UMDB memories page. He seemed to make a number of people, whether they knew him or not, pretty happy, if only for a fleeting moment...appropriate for someone so fleet of foot.

The Mets outrighted Terrance Gore to Triple-A. Gore declined the assignment and opted for free agency. If Gore is done as a Met, he leaves having played in 10 victories and no defeats, by far the best record any Met has enjoyed. (He also played in the Mets' only postseason win of 2022.)

Benjamin Grimm wrote: One less hole to fill. Which would be the case if they picked up the option on Doughnut.

The Mets have picked up Carlos Carrasco's option.

In the clutch, bats grew slow and tentative. On the bases, veterans found their instincts gone haywire as they inexplicably ran in the wrong direction. The worst of all contagious baseball diseases — pressing under pressure — became epidemic. Journeyman players, made confident by their reincarnation in pinstripes, suddenly reverted to humbler pedigrees. Like clowns at a masked ball removing their masks, folks like Rick Reuschel, Larry Milbourne, Aurelio Rodriguez and Jerry Mumphrey began resembling the lowly Cubs, Mariners, Senators and Padres they once had been. —Tom Boswell, “Indecent Exposure,” Inside Sports, December 1981 Another of those quotes that stayed with me for more than four decades, written after the MFYs fell to the Dodgers. I was moved to look it up this summer when the Mets had suddenly imported a Pirate, a Red, a Cub and a Giant, three of whom were nowhere near the postseason a year earlier. Seeing as how two World Series before 1981, the Pirates were, to a tangible extent, propelled by in-season trades for Bill Madlock and Tim Foli, this pedigree business is probably hogwash. Boswell saw a throughline he liked and rode it. I do appreciate he got in a plug for his long gone hometown Senators.

Juan Lagares, postseason hero in Korea.

Super Joe McEwing no longer super in the eyes of White Sox management, let go after long tenure as coach. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2022/11/2/23437661/white-sox-coach-joe-mcewing-wont-return-in-2023https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2022/11/2/23437661/white-sox-coach-joe-mcewing-wont-return-in-2023

Three days in, much of the subject matter of these back pages, for better or worse… Max Scherzer is a Met, paid a king's ransom for being so Buck Showalter is the Met manager Gil Hodges is elected to the Hall of Fame The DH is coming to the National League Old Timers Day is returning Matt Harvey is involved in a drug scandal Spring Training is locked out …feels like a novel with scattershot Met references weaved throughout. If I were reading such a book maybe three years ago, I'd think, “That wouldn't happen in real life.”

Rainout pushes Thor to Game Five on Thursda; Sat and Sun are now If Necessary Gqmes Six and Seven.

Noah starts Game Three. He is well-rested.

The Sporting News — “yes, we're still a thing” — has named Buck Showalter its National League Manager of the Year.

Silver Slugger nominees? We got 'em by the bushel. https://www.sny.tv/articles/mets-yankees-named-2022-silver-slugger-finalistshttps://www.sny.tv/articles/mets-yankees-named-2022-silver-slugger-finalists

Long rumored Mets prexy candidate has stepped aside as Milwaukee's head of baseball ops and into an advisory role, to which Stearns says he is committed. SNY's Andy Martino reports Steve Cohen isn't interested in engaging Stearns's services at this time.

Willie Mays documentary preview. Set to debut November 8.

Marlins have a new manager, Skip Schumaker, who I could swear came up to the Cardinals about five minutes ago.

Hope some of you made it to the http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2022/10/25/rainy-day-parade/Elimination Day Parade. A great time was had by all!

“Our shit doesn't work in the LCS.” —Brian Cashman

A ring for Dusty. https://bttalks.com/dusty-baker-tributeThis story makes an Astros' victory more than palatable.

Well done, American League Champion Not the MFYs!

The Rangers have named the very successful previously at liberty Bruce Bochy manager.