The New York Mets officially introduced former Met Carlos Beltran, who played with the team from 2005-2011, as their new manager. He was a five-time All-Star as a player. He is the 22nd manager in Met History. He brings with him a superstar presence.
When General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen announced Beltran to the media he said “welcome home.”
Beltran was a little overwhelmed and excited to begin his
managerial career while wearing the same uniform as a player. He also said that
he can’t wait to rewrite his story as manager of the Mets. He said that he has
unfinished business with the Mets meaning he will push his team to win. He is looking
forward to having baseball conversation. He will use data to benefit himself
and create a decent vision.
Brodie said that Beltran has five qualities that stood out
to him during his managerial search. They were poise, trustworthiness and that
will go a long way, he is a student and has a willingness to learn, he has a
commitment to beating opponents, and has an unrivaled appreciation and
understanding of players.
Brodie said they are a players-first organization, and
Carlos will be a players-first manager. He added that Carlos' on-field and front-office experience
will give him instant credibility in the clubhouse. He will
command the respect of all his players.
Brodie’s goals during the off-season
will be to create depth in the starting rotation, improve the defense at
catcher and centerfield and improve the bullpen through free-agency or trades.
In other baseball news, congratulations to the Washington
Nationals on their first World Series Championship, defeating the Houston Astros
4-3, which nobody thought would occur due to their past gut-wrenching post
season failures.
In my opinion, they were the “Amazing Miracle Nationals,”
because they started off 19-31 which marked the worst fifty game start for any
World Series Champion, and they had a horrendous bullpen which basically was the
worst in baseball during the regular season.
Only the 1914 Boston “Miracle” Braves before them had ever
rebounded to make the post-season after such a slow start, but those Braves teams
did not have to go through a post season gauntlet quite like what lied ahead for
the Nationals. They became the ninth team in MLB history to make the postseason
after bottoming out so far.
The Nationals defeated the Brewers and their great closer
Josh Hader in the Wildcard game. They upset the defending National League
Champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS in five games. They then upset a tough
St Louis Cardinal team in the NLCS in four straight games.
They upset the
mighty Houston Astros team that had that great pitching trio of Cole, Verlander
and Grienke, and that had won 107 games during the regular season, in the World
Series in seven games. The Nationals won four road games ,which was never done
before in World Series history.
5 comments:
Thanks Tony. Still can't believe they fired Fonzie and hired Beltran. His last tenure did not end well, I can see this ending bad too. I will give him the benefit of the doubt. It could be that he turns out ti be Joe Torre, not so good with the Mets only to succeed with the Yankees down the road. You wonder if he has an opt out clause in case the Yankee job opens up.
Hopefully, he will have the same success Torre had with the Yankees.
I am hoping.
Look if his one negative is he hasn't managed before the pluses far outweigh the minuses. He knows about playing in NY, he was an All-Star FOR US, he only wanted to manage here, he certainly doesn't need the money and he has instant cred when he walks into the dugout which is huge and probably the most important plus of all.
Gary, if Beltran does not bring in Walker Lockett, he should do just fine.
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