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Mets fans, episode 17 is here!

This week, Patrick Glynn and I sat down with seven year MLB catcher and current free agent Caleb Joseph to talk about his former manager Buck Showalter.

Is Buck the right man for the job?

Here’s a little bit of what the veteran catcher had to say about his former manager:

What was Buck Showalter like as a manager? What was your experience with him?

Joseph: He’s a very unique manager. I haven’t had a manager like him since and had never had one like him before that.

One of the main things that come to mind when I think about Buck is detail-oriented.

So you play the game for 20-25 years and you feel like you have a pretty decent grasp of the game and then you play for a Buck Showalter, and you realize, so many minute details that seem minute that you’ve passed over, or have not noticed, are actually major points in a major league game.

A lot of times in high school, college, even in a low minor leagues, these little points of the game can be overlooked or missed, and you can get away with it.

If you just have Jacob deGrom pitching for the Binghamton Mets, it doesn’t really matter if you miss a cut off man in the fourth inning of a tie baseball game, because he’s just going to strike out the next three guys.

Well, little bitty mistakes in the 90-foot increments are major in the major league level. They’re huge momentum shifts. And when you play for Buck, you realize how important those things are.

You really, truly understand how important they are because he very specifically lays out in details, how it affected the game, how it will affect it moving forward and how we’re going to clean it up.

So spring training right out the gate, it’s almost like a two-by-four to face.

Because if you’re not used to a Buck Showalter spring training, it’s regimented, it is timely, it’s crisp, the T’s are crossed, the i’s are dotted, everything is buttoned up, it’s tight, it’s professional, it’s there’s no wasted movement, no wasted time, everything has an incredibly intense purpose, get your work done and get out.

And for guys that would come over from other organizations, they’re almost in a state of shock at how this well-oiled machine just started to churn and move in one direction.

Caleb had some great conversations with us about Showalter, the lockout and much more!

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