The Mets were the last of three teams to dismiss their manager the past week and the first to hire a new one.
Louis Rojas, 38, has been hired to be the 23rd Mets Manager.
Luis spent last year as the Mets quality control coach, serving as a "uniformed liaison between the coaching staff and front office".
Luis came to the Mets in 2007 when he managed the Mets team in the Dominican Summer League.
Rojas,
spent three seasons managing the Savannah Sand Gnats, the Mets Single-A
affiliate. Rojas led the Sand Gnats to playoffs appearances the last two
seasons and won the South Atlantic League championship in 2013.
He most recently managed the Mets AA team, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in 2017 and 2018. In 2017 Luis led Binghamton to a 85-54 2nd place finish. Binghamton then lost to the Trenton Thunder 3 games to 1 in the 2017 playoffs.
While in Binghamton Luis managed such Mets as Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, Tomas Nido, and Daniel Zamora. He also managed current Mets Minor League players Ryder Ryan, Andres Gimenez, Steve Villines, and Corey Oswalt.
Working in the organization for over 13 years, the promotion is earned and well deserved.
Got to know Luis well when he played Savannah. Really good guy that carries a soft stick. Most of the current studs knew him well.
ReplyDeleteGood hire in times of trouble.
Good to get that resolved. Now let's win a pennant.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least he's managed before. There's that leg up on the cheater.
ReplyDeleteAnd managed Mets teams into the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteThe last time we promoted a AA mgr from our system who had no ML experience as mgr it worked out well.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope for a repeat.
I like it. He makes sense right now for the Mets.
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