Current Position: Houston Astros Bench Coach Age: 46 Managerial Experience: None Hailing from San Jose, Puerto Rico, Joe Espada was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the second round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. A Rule 5 draft pick by the Twins, Espada played minor league baseball for the Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers and...
Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets organization are set to resume second round managerial interviews today with Joe Espada. Buck Showalter, the favorite to be offered the position, will interview with Mets front office staff on Friday. The organization has not indicated when they will make a final decision on the new manager. Michael Mayer has more on this story. Now, it is time for the morning...
The Mets are down to three candidates for their managerial position. Buck Showalter, Joe Espada, and Matt Quatraro advanced to the second round of interviews from a field that included Brad Ausmus and Bob Geren as well. Showalter appears to be the favorite for the job despite not working in baseball since he was let go by the Orioles in 2018. Let’s look at the pros and cons of each one of...
The second round of managerial interviews begins today. The remaining candidates are Buck Showalter, Astros bench coach Joe Espada, and Rays bench coach Matt Quatraro. The Mets have narrowed down their candidate list, eliminating Bob Geren and Brad Ausmus from the search. New York is in no rush to hire one of the three candidates because of the present MLB lockout and only one other team with a...
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...
Current Position: Tampa Bay Rays Bench Coach Age: 48 Managerial Experience: No MLB experience, four seasons in low Tampa Bay minors Matt Quatraro is a New York native, hemming from East Selkirk, New York a hamlet outside of Albany. Born in 1973, he was a right-handed first baseman/catcher at Old Dominion University from 1993-1996. Quatraro had an illustrious career at ODU finishing his career...
Pittsburgh Pirates bench coach Don Kelly is withdrawing his name from consideration of the Mets manager opening due to personal reasons, Joel Sherman reports. Kelly was scheduled to possibly interview Thursday for the opening, according to Mike Puma of the New York Post. Kelly played in the majors from 2007-2016 and has been coaching at the major league level since 2019. Kelly began his coaching...
Former Mets bench coach Bob Geren will interview today for manager, reports Joel Sherman. #Dodgers bench coach Bob Geren also is interviewing for the #Mets managerial opening today. — Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) December 8, 2021 It was reported yesterday the Geren was a candidate. Geren is currently the bench coach of the Dodgers. He was the manager of the Oakland Athletic’s from...
Former Mets bench coach Bob Geren will interview for the Mets’ managerial position later this week, according to SNY’s Andy Martino. Add another Mets managerial candidate. Bob Geren will interview this week, per source. Former Mets bench coach who has been in that role with Dodgers through their run of success. — Andy Martino (@martinonyc) December 7, 2021 Geren started off...
It’s time for another Mets hiring carousel. With Billy Eppler set to become the next general manager one of his first moves will be hiring a manager. Outside of pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, the Mets will be replacing every member of the Mets 2021 coaching staff. Hugh Quattlebaum was reassigned within the Mets organization, otherwise, everyone else was allowed to seek new opportunities....
It’s been months since Joe Girardi was first connected to the Mets managerial job. In May when the possibility of Mickey Callaway first being fired came up, so did the idea of Joe Girardi replacing him. There are a lot of reasons that Joe Girardi may be the perfect fit to replace Callaway and take the Mets to the next level. However, there a few red flags that show that Girardi is far from...
When it was announced Monday that Eduardo Perez was a candidate for the Mets manager job it caught everyone by surprise. Perez had never been considered for a managerial job before, nor did he have an extensive coaching career. Instead, he made his name managing teams in Puerto Rico, having short stints coaching in the MLB, and as a long-time ESPN analyst. So why would the Mets be interested in...
