Nicole Menner of WBNG 12 News reports the New York Mets have announced Lorenzo Bundy as the new manager for the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies. The Mets had a managerial vacancy in Binghamton after Kevin Boles was promoted to become the organization’s minor league field coordinator.
Bundy, 60, began his coaching career in 1989. In addition to being a minor league coach and manager, he has been a Major League coach as well getting his start as Jim Leyland‘s bullpen coach with the 1999 Colorado Rockies.
He also served as an interim bench coach on the 2004 Diamondbacks and later as the first base coach for Bob Melvin on the 2009 Arizona Diamondbacks. From 2014-2015, he was the third base coach and outfield coach for Don Mattingly‘s Los Angeles Dodger teams.
Most recently in the majors, he was the outfield and baserunning coach for the Marlins during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. He worked on the same staff as new Triple-A Syracuse Mets hire Brian Schneider.
In his eight-year minor league managerial career, he has a 568-597 record. Of those eight years, he has served as a Triple-A manager in six seasons, most recently in 2013.
Bundy spent the last two seasons managing in Mexico.
In terms of his coaching philosophy, in a 2014 interview with The Greatest 21 Days, Bundy said, “Will things go right all the time? Probably not, just because it’s a tough game to play. But we put ourselves in positions, as far as having our routines, having a great work ethic, paying attention to detail. If you have talent, good things will happen.”
Joining Bundy on the Binghamton staff will be Jonathan Hurst as pitching coach, Tony Jaramillo as hitting coach, Luis Rivera as bench coach, Kiyoshi Tada as athletic trainer, and Tanner Miracle as performance coach.
Hurst, Jaramillo, and Tada are all returning to Binghamton. Rivera was the Columbia Fireflies hitting coach ast season and Miracle worked with St. Lucie.
