Buck Showalter’s guidance after the Mets chose to become sellers kept the team from imploding. Their new manager will to be experienced, too.
sat in the visiting manager’s office in Baltimore and contemplated the task ahead for the almost two months the Mets still had to play.in which Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, David Robertson, Mark Canha, Tommy Pham and Dominic Leone were traded to playoff contenders, helping restock the Mets’ minor league system.
Showalter’s awareness of the potential embarrassment that lurked and his resolve to prevent it speaks to the value of employing an experienced manager in such a high-profile, pressurized job.giving new president of baseball operations David StearnsShowalter wasn’t worthy of the dismissal given his first-year success and management’s decision to gut the team on Aug. 1, but it’s also understandable that Cohen didn’t want to force an arranged marriage upon Stearns.
Showalter’s vast experience and understanding of the situation in August only underscored the importance of experience when it comes to considering candidates for the New York pressure cooker.The two managers that preceded Showalter in the Mets dugout, Luis Rojas and Mickey Callaway, were first-timers. Both tenures are remembered in part for episodes that brought chagrin to the organization.
Sure, these incidents could have occurred under the watch of veteran managers, but the old saying “you don’t know what you don’t know” applies in triplicate when considering candidates for the Mets. The longest-tenured manager in Mets history, Terry Collins, survived in part because he learned from his mistakes managing the Astros and Angels and could reflect on what he needed to change if he ever received another opportunity. Collins’ seven seasons is longer than the combined tenures of the last four Mets managers . Beltran departed before even managing a game after he was named in the Astros’ sign-stealing scheme.
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