The Mets recently embarked upon a fascinating search for a new manager, with a wide variety of possibilities for GM Brodie Van Wagenen to comb through. Van Wagenen himself was quite the unexpected hire, so perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the organization is looking into some unexpected names.
Former star Carlos Beltran may not always have had the smoothest relationship with the Mets during his playing days, but Andy Martino of SNY.tv reports that he and the organization are showing some mutual interest. There’s still no indication that the match is particularly likely to come to fruition, but it now seems there’s a path at least to serious talks.
To this point, the Mets have not requested permission to speak with Beltran, who is still actively engaged with the Yankees’ postseason efforts. But the club is performing “background work” on the 42-year-old, who wrapped up his playing career in 2017. Beltran played in New York in half of his twenty exceptional MLB campaigns, including parts of seven seasons with the Mets and parts of three with the Yankees.
Background work? On a guy who for the team for years? Really?
8 years ago. Gotta make sure nothing has happened since then.
Tell him to stay away – not worth the pain of bad ownership
BVM does the only rational thing (for BVM)…hires Tim Tebow……
hahahhahahaa best candidate according to Wilpons
As a Mets fan, I would prefer Joe Maddon, Joe Girardi or even Buck Showalter but Beltran was a smart baseball player. Will almost certainly become a HOF in a couple of years. If the Mets were to go towards an inexperienced MLB Manager again, I guess the only ones I would take a shot on is Beltran and Joe McEwing from the White Sox.
McEwing would be a smart hire. Maddon is LA bound. Girardi would be the best bet.
I agree with the big names. But the Wilson’s are coupon cutters and won’t pay for a seasoned proven manager. Madden for me is the best choice as with the Rays and the Cubs he shuffles players around. Mets have a lot of guys that play the same positions
@Snake65 I couldn’t agree more about Maddon. He is the ideal Manager for the Mets but like you said, the Wilpons are cheap. Let’s see if Brodie Van Wagenen can use some of his charisma on them and entice them to open their wallet ever so slightly…
Mets won’t pay the big bucks for name Mgr. I agree for a low money guy McEwen is a good choice. At same time they should scoop up Ray Searage as pitching coach before he’s taken.
McEwing not McEwen!
Maybe he’s talking about the actor McEwen Mcgregor.
Haha!!!
no to Searage, he couldnt help Glasnow or Cole and Archer has regressed under him. The Vulture should stay as PC
Being a good player doesn’t mean you can manage a team. If he wants to manage, he needs to get experience in the minors. I’ve seen enough managers fail with zero experience to know it doesn’t work.
Can you imagine how good they’d be if Beltran was their coach! He’s a beast!
We’re talking manager not coach
This is why the Mets lose. Beltran is not management material. The Mets should be knocking down doors trying to get a manager who has a record of getting the most out of a pitching staff. Leyland, Torre, and Showalter are available. And if you want to with an unproven guy, who might not know how to work a pitching staff, then go get Omar Visquel.
How is Beltran not management material?? 2 of the 3 are retired and other should be close to retirement. Callaway was supposed to get the most out of the pitching staff and failed big time.
Leyland and Torre? They are pushing 80 years old. They aren’t managing anymore.
If age doesn’t matter they might as well hire the corpse of Connie Mack lol
Better yet: since Mr. Mack also owned the team, can his corpse be the new owner?
would be better than the corpse of Dusty Baker
He had to be joking.
The game has past those guys by. Younger managers who fully embrace the numbers and work with their analytics departments are who are effective in today’s game.
I wonder if Beltran has interest in the giants opening. I know he’s a NY guy, but was essentially the assistant manager when giants traded for him in (I want to say 2013?). Not that anyone can fill his shoes, but Beltran would be a good replacement for Bochy.
ROFLOL!
Why was Frank McCourt removed as owner of the Dodgers? The Dodgers made the playoffs in half the seasons McCourt owned them and the Dodgers farm was excellent. The TV deal would have solved any purported financial problems that McCourt had.
Meanwhile, in New York City, borough of Queens, the laughable since they bought the the Mets Wilpons – Fred and Jeff – continue to dig the Mets grave another foot deeper each year.
The Dodgers filed for Chapter 11 protection under McCourt and the finances were a wreck during the divorce. The Mets have a WS appearance in recent memory and were in the running for the playoffs until the last week of this season and are financially solvent. They spend money.
“The Wilpons want to win. They just have no idea how.”
-Steve Sommers
You obviously don’t know the extent of McCourts financial problems.
Easy answer: Bud was friends with the mets owner. nytimes.com/2011/05/01/sports/baseball/01dodgers.h…
Using Frank McCourt to support your argument? You need to look elsewhere.
Could still advise in the Bronx while that mole on his head manages in Queens. Great fit.
Look, I’ve always liked Beltran, but I don’t think he’s the right choice to manage anywhere right now, but especially not the Mets. The Mets have a window to win in the next couple years and they need a manager with experience to get it done. If I’m the Wilpons, I throw a blank check at Joe Maddon and let him fill in the amount himself, but that’s not gonna happen.
Joe Girardi is not the answer, either, nor is Showalter. I’d like to see Beltran catch on as a hitting coach somewhere, I think he’d be great for that role, and then manage somewhere if that’s what he wants.
Has Beltran ever coached?
You know it’s always enjoyable and sometimes fun to see what the NL East division rivals are doing, but I have to be serious about this in what I say this about the possibility of Beltran or any inexperienced manager coming in after Callaway. What would be the point? Why fire Calaway, if the plan is to go with another guy that you have no clue about how he’ll handle being a manager…and of all places and all teams, the Mets with their media, their fan base, and the pressures that come with it? Callaway won 86 games with this team, which is more than 29 other media markets and fan bases expected. So now, you want to go with an inexperienced guy because he will make headlines because he played with the Mets and is hanging out with the Yankees during their championship efforts? When you fire a manager who your team won 86 games with, a total that many others markets feel was better than expected, you better make sure that you replace that manager with a manager that is proven or without a doubt better. If not, you will get the same result that you did this year and the failed status quo of the Mets will continue. Heck, things can even get worse, then what? Will the next bash be that the Mets should have never fired Callaway if say, the next manager leads them to 82 wins or under .500 next year? Sorry, but after firing Callaway, the goal should be to hire someone that gets you at least 86 wins next year instead of trying to once again make headlines in a year when the Yankees can easily win another championship. Stop looking for headlines and try to actually do something competent. It’s shameful to your franchise that a Marlins fan is saying this. It’s potential moves like this is why the other 4 teams’ fan bases in the NL East can always know that, no matter how bad things get for any of our teams, we can always count on the Wilpons to make the Mets look more incompetent and stupid. The only reason the Mets don’t always show it in the standings is because they have enough revenue to not finish in last, but they always sit in the purgatory of team sports – in the middle never being bad enough to rebuild and never being good enough to win it all.
And in following, I’ll say this as a Marlins fan who has experience with bad ownerships (ahem, Jeffery Loria). When you see any sports franchise repeat the same mistakes over and over and over again through long periods of time, with multiple changes, you start looking at what has remained during the repetition of bad practices that have failed. With the Mets, they have changed managers, GMs, entire front offices, entire rosters, but the same problems remain of a team that runs around like a headless chicken who has enough money to attach the head back on with scotch tape. What has remained? The Wilpons. Let’s just go back to the GMs from Steve Phillips to theJim Duquettes to the Omar Minayas to the Sandy Aldersons to the current bonehead; Let’s go from the managers from Bobby Valentine to the Willie Randolphs to the Jerry Manuels to the Terry Collinses to the Callaways; From the players like the Mo Vaugns, Roberto Alomars, Victor Zambranos, Bobby Bonillas, Jason Bays, Lastings Milledges, Fernando Martinezes, Mike Pelfreys, Aaron Heilmans, Luis Castillos, Ike Davises, Matt Harveys, Jason Vargases, etc. etc. etc. There is only one constant that remains with the Mets during these failures – the Wilpons. They are still here. So when you get your next manager and next transactions this offseason, and they get their PR department and their homer beat writers to sell you on the team being a championship contender, remember who is selling it to you…like they have been for a long time. That so called champagne that they are serving has turned out to be Kool-aid every other year. Until they are gone, this is what you will get, and shouldn’t be fooled into thinking you have more. And as much as you all may hate me saying this, but you may want to take a page out of the Marlins fans. Just stay home and not pay for the tickets to help those clowns make more money. Do something else while watching the game at a bar or other event. It’s what we do here in South Florida with the Marlins. We got our owner out (finally), who Montreal failed to get rid of, and our new ownership is actually running campaigns to see how to improve the experience as a Marlins fan. You want the Wilpons to be gone or listen to you all, stop going to games; stop getting in line to drink the Kool-aid.
Wow!
Oh please, Jorge Mas should have been the owner of the Marlins but since Saint Jeter was attached to Shermans bid he won. What did Jeter do as soon as they took over? he kicked Andre Dawson and Jeff Conine in the nuts and showed them the door and got rid of another employee who was battling cancer. Good luck with those bufoons running the show over there.
I don’t see anything in your post saying that I’m wrong about my statement. Are you a shill for the Wilpons? Are you a part of the Mets PR Department? Are you one of their homer beat writers?
Seriously, you make a statement, but none of it addresses what I stated.
your not getting a job as a writer in baseball. so 25 words or less. Get out more!!
I forget, a lot of you refuse to take your ADHD meds.