Master Index of Archived Threads


Big staff changes

41Forever Oct 03 2017 02:03 PM

Most of the coaches and Ray Ramirez out, too. FLUSHING, N.Y., October 3, 2017 — The New York Mets today announced the following staff changes. Terry Collins has accepted the position of Special Assistant to General Manager Sandy Alderson. Dan Warthen, who has been the Mets Pitching Coach since 2008, will not return as New York’s Pitching Coach, and has been offered another role in the organization. Bench Coach Dick Scott, First Base Coach Tom Goodwin, Bullpen Coach Ricky Bones will be given permission to speak to other teams, pending the selection of a new manager. The Mets will retain coaches Kevin Long and Pat Roessler along with Third Base Coach Glenn Sherlock who is already under contract for 2018. Ray Ramirez, who has been the Mets Head Trainer since the 2005 season, will not return in 2018. The rest of the training and conditioning staff will remain with the club for the 2018 season.

d'Kong76 Oct 03 2017 02:11 PM Re: Big staff changes

Shouldn't the new head of the training and conditioning staff be able to decide who stays and who goes?

MFS62 Oct 03 2017 02:14 PM Re: Big staff changes

d'Kong76 wrote: Shouldn't the new head of the training and conditioning staff be able to decide who stays and who goes? Yes. After all the injuries, I expected that someone in the training staff would take a fall. But I thought it would be the conditioning/ exercise guy. Later

Ceetar Oct 03 2017 02:15 PM Re: Big staff changes

d'Kong76 wrote: Shouldn't the new head of the training and conditioning staff be able to decide who stays and who goes? Probably a lot of them aren't contract employees and can be let go at will.

A Boy Named Seo Oct 03 2017 02:19 PM Re: Big staff changes

I know Barwis isn't an employee, but I'd be surprised if our association w/ that turd continued.

Edgy MD Oct 03 2017 03:41 PM Re: Big staff changes

He is an employee, and the idea that Ramirez goes and Barwis stays is an anathema. It's an execration.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Oct 03 2017 04:13 PM Re: Big staff changes

Yeah I'd like to see Barwis get whacked but he has Jeff's seal of approval and I'm sure they look at him as a kind of profit center. Ramirez was one of Omar's first hires, dating back to his Texas Rangers days and the questionable training methods era and he arrived when the Mets were doing that "PREVENTION + RECOVERY" act. Beltran and Reyes were experimenting with blood-spinning and other crazy shit in his era. I can't think its terrible that he's moving on. You can;t throw a rock anymore without hitting a decent athletic trainer, it would seem, and a job with a pro team has got to be one of the most desired in the field. It's inexcusable they'd employ guys who aren't among the best in the world.