There’s no doubt Buck Showalter has seen baseball games play out in just about every which way they can. At the helm of four different teams over 20 seasons since 1992, Showalter has managed over 3,000 games–winning about half of them. He arrives at the Mets with more managing experience than the last four Mets managers combined. While some will point to that experience (just 23...
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The Mets’ road to hiring Buck Showalter to be their new manager is one that started back in 2020, when Carlos Beltrán, their manager at the time and six-and-a-half year veteran of the Mets, was named in the Astros sign stealing scandal from the 2017 season. Beltrán–then a player–was heavily named as a conspirator of the idea to bang trash cans for certain pitches pulled from...
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Despite the owners locking the players out, the Mets have kept active over the last three weeks with a manager search. That came to a head this week as the Mets dugout now has its leader. The Buck Stops In Flushing Last week, I predicted the Mets would settle on a manager hire by the end of this week, and sure enough, Steve Cohen took to Twitter–lack of punctuation an all–Saturday...
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Multiple reports Sunday revealed the three finalist for the Mets’ managerial position: Buck Showalter, Joe Espada and Matt Quatraro. Reports from Ken Davidoff, Joel Sherman and Tim Healey all contributed to the final list of names. All three candidates will interview with general manager Billy Eppler again, only this time, owner Steve Cohen will be involved in the conversations. Earlier in...
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Updated Post, Decmber 12, 2021, 4:42 PM EST After Buck Showalter was basically a shoe-in for the Mets’ second round of manager interviews, the NY Post confirmed that Joe Espada made it to the second round of interviews, too. There’s no word of if those two are the only names or if another name will surface over the next day or two from the initial crop. We posted earlier about Buck...
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