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Name the Next Leadership Team

Edgy MD Oct 05 2023 08:44 PM

I'm kinda guessing Bryn Alderson for GM and Joey Cora for manager. Mets go double-nepotism. In fact, feel free to guess three sets — the leadership team you want, the leadership team you think you'll get, and the leadership team that could conceivably happen within the realm of reason, but you'd absolutely hate. Want-Get-Hate. I guess that's a variation on Fuck-Marry-Kill, though I never really understood that game. WANT: Ben Sestanovich, assistant GM of the Braves, and Joe McEwing GET: Bryn Alderson and Joey Cora HATE: Uh, Dan O'Dowd and Ozzie Guillen

nymr83 Oct 05 2023 10:29 PM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

Want: don't care who the GM is really, whoever Stearns likes is fine. A miracle re-hiring of Buck and blaming it all on Eppler would be great. Or Bobby V asks for the job and a starry eyed Stearns can't say no to his boyhood idol. Get: some GM guy who worked for Stearns before. Craig Counsell. Hate: the former braves GM who cheated, Don Mattingly (just because the Yankee stench I don't want)

Edgy MD Oct 05 2023 10:57 PM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

Mattingly probably has a decent chance of at least getting through the door for an interview.

roger_that Oct 06 2023 06:35 AM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

Edgy MD wrote: Mattingly probably has a decent chance of at least getting through the door for an interview. Why not? They've been kissing Yankee butt ever since they hired Stengel. Berra, Randolph, Showalter--no Yankee butt is too stinky for the Mets to smooch. You'd think they'd show some goddamned pride, but that's too much to ask, I guess. Maybe re-hire Randolph, with Mattingly as GM?

MFS62 Oct 06 2023 06:55 AM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 06 2023 02:10 PM

Want: GM Carlos Rodriguez who? This guy: https://www.mlb.com/rays/team/front-office/carlos-rodriguez I like the Rays' model of putting together a roster of players whose skills compliment each other. And he has talent evaluation chops. I would love to see what he could do with a large budget. Whoever it is, I would like someone who emulates the Atlanta approach - scouting and signing young talent, developing them and then locking them in to long term contracts. This article describes it in greater detail. https://sports.yahoo.com/how-the-braves-were-built-inside-the-extensions-that-turned-atlanta-into-a-perennial-contender-190510965.html Manager: Endy Chavez or some other link to the past. Someone who makes good in-game decisions as well as can manage the clubhouse. Will get: GM and manager -someone with whom Stearns has worked before. Wouldn't like: The long list includes Mattingly( either position), John Gibbons and Dusty Baker (manager) Later

metsmarathon Oct 06 2023 07:00 AM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

=roger_that post_id=138969 time=1696595738 user_id=128] Maybe re-hire Randolph, with Mattingly as GM?

jeez, why get willie when jeter is sitting right there.

MFS62 Oct 06 2023 07:37 AM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

=metsmarathon post_id=138973 time=1696597253 user_id=83] =roger_that post_id=138969 time=1696595738 user_id=128] Maybe re-hire Randolph, with Mattingly as GM?

jeez, why get willie when jeter is sitting right there.


I just threw up in my mouth.

Later

Benjamin Grimm Oct 06 2023 07:48 AM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

I don't know who to root for to fill these two positions. I'd like to see a younger manager, someone under fifty. As for the GM, I wouldn't be surprised if they promoted someone from within. I wonder if we'll hear an outcry for Wally Backman this time around, as we have every other time, or if his fans have moved on?

Edgy MD Oct 06 2023 08:43 AM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

/*Runs to Xwitter to check out some Lenny Dykstra hot takez.

metirish Oct 06 2023 02:21 PM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

Well, Wally and the Ducks recently parted ways so he available

dgwphotography Oct 06 2023 03:47 PM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

Probably not going to happen, but I would like to see Carlos Beltran as manager.

TransMonk Oct 06 2023 04:21 PM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

I'm not a Buck apologist, but I'm not convinced there is anyone out there who is a definite improvement upon him...especially in 2024. Counsell? Meh. He can take a good, healthy team and get them to 90 wins, but he has been pretty terrible at doing much more when the calendar flips to October. Is that enough? Not for me.

MFS62 Oct 06 2023 04:31 PM Re: Name the Next Leadership Team

One of the first orders of business for the new regime will be dealing with 16 arbitration eligible players. https://metsmerizedonline.com/salary-projections-for-mets-16-arbitration-eligible-players/ Later