Morning Briefing: Pitching Coach Market Drying Up

Tonight, Game 3 of the World Series will go down in Houston. Yu Darvish will take on Lance McCullers Jr. in a battle of spin rates.

On a programming note, all of the remaining World Series games will start at 8:20 p.m. in EST.

Jose Altuve was voted the Sporting News Player of the Year.

Latest Mets News

Kevin Long will likely leave the Mets according to Jon Heyman of Fan Rag Sports.

Tommy Milone was removed off the 40-man roster.

Latest Managerial/Coaching News

The big news today was the Yankees announced Joe Girardi will not return as Yankees manager. Girardi said the decision came from the Yankees, not mutual.

The Cubs hired Chili Davis and Brian Butterfield as hitting coach and third base coach respectively. The big fish they got was Jim Hickey to be their pitching coach and reunite with Joe Maddon.

The Indians replaced Mickey Callaway with Carl Willis and the Cardinals hired Mike Maddux.

The Mets still have options in Indians’ coaches with Ruben Niebla and Jason Bere as well as Brian Bannister to consider for the job.

They’ve also shown interest in veteran pitching coach Dave Eiland.

Latest NL East News

Jon Heyman of Fan Rag Sports reports that Dave Martinez is the leading candidate to replace Dusty Baker.

Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald writes about the latest in the Marlins organization.

Jon Heyman of Fan Rag Sports has the latest on the Braves investigation.

Todd Zolecki of MLB.com writes that the managerial job will go to Dusty Wahthan or Gabe Kapler.

Latest on MMO

Josh Finklestein grades Asdrubal Cabrera on his 2017 season.

This Day in Mets History

1986: The Mets win the World Series. Darryl Strawberry and Ray Knight both homer to win it.