Good morning, Mets fans! Mets are leaning toward Tuesday for an introductory Zoom press conference with Buck Showalter. — Mike Puma (@NYPost_Mets) December 19, 2021 The Mets are leaning toward introducing new manager Buck Showalter on Tuesday. While many media members have praised the Mets hiring of Showalter, so have many players. Padres third baseman Manny Machado is the latest player to...
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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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Those of you who have followed me over the last 15+ years on MMO, are well aware of my disdain for the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA). I don’t really have anything against any of their individual writers, other than the clowns who held their votes against Mike Piazza. But as a voting body they are totally incompetent and I’m tired of all the shenanigans. Of...
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Mets fans, we’re here with another emergency episode of the ‘Get Metsmerized’ Podcast: Manager Edition! This week Tim Healey of Newsday joins me once again to discuss everything to do with the Amazin’s new manager. Tim and I have some great discussions of why Steven Cohen, Billy Eppler, and company felt Buck Showalter was the right person for the job, what should we...
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During his introductory press conference, Steve Cohen made a note that the Mets, his newly minted purchase, will not only go full bore in trying to win but to also live up to the expectation that a major market team should spend like a major market team. Cohen stated confidently that “this is a major market team and it should have a budget commensurate with that.” Cohen and the Mets...
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