Dec. 8: Geren’s interview will take place today, tweets Joel Sherman of the New York Post.
Dec. 7: Dodgers bench coach Bob Geren will interview for the Mets’ managerial vacancy this week, according to SNY’s Andy Martino (Twitter link). Geren is the sixth known candidate for the job, joining Buck Showalter, Brad Ausmus, Joe Espada, Don Kelly, and Matt Quatraro as names on the Amazins’ radar.
Like Showalter and Ausmus, Geren has some past big league managerial experience on his resume, as he posted a 334-376 record while working as the Athletics’ skipper from 2007-11. He has also previously worked in the Mets’ dugout, serving as the club’s bench coach from 2012-15. Geren has worked as manager Dave Roberts’ bench coach with the Dodgers for each of the past six seasons.
Geren has been linked to several other managerial jobs since his time in Oakland, such as the Dodgers’ job that went to Roberts, the Red Sox vacancy that went to Alex Cora, the Giants’ job that went to Gabe Kapler, and even one of the Mets’ recent managerial searches. Before New York hired Mickey Callaway prior to the 2018 season, Geren was reportedly one of the early contenders as a possible replacement for Terry Collins, though it didn’t appear as if Geren made it too deep (if at all) into the interview process.
This past connection to the Mets certainly makes Geren a known quantity to both president Sandy Alderson and owner Steve Cohen, whereas the other known candidates don’t have any past ties to Queens. Ausmus and Espada did previously work with GM Billy Eppler, creating an interesting mix of familiarity and entirely fresh voices within the group of six.
Which will last longer??
Mets interviews or MLB lockout?
Your bad jokes will last the longest
yes, but really though, which one?
Lockout, Phillies fan. Lockout
WINNING!!
This might just be due diligence. I don’t see the Mets hiring a manager with a career record of 40 something games below .500 unless he is a well known household name. Geren isn’t well known and he didn’t do anything to prove himself when he had his first shot. They would be better off giving someone new a chance over this guy. I wonder how Piazza would do. Catchers sometimes make good managers and I’m sure Piazza is very acclimated with the organization already.
Yeah because geren has been in an environment of losing for the last half decade
Geren may be a nice guy, but he is a dumpster fire as manager. The best move Beane ever did was dumping him for Melvin. Geren will tank your team.
Geren may be a nice guy, but he is a dumpster fire as manager. The best move Beane ever did was dumping him for Melvin. Geren will tank your team.
I agree. Managerial experience with a constant losing record is the same as giving Rojas his shot. It’s a waste of a few seasons.
I agree with you, I hope they pass on both Geren & Asmus, both “dumpster fires” as managers. Could have possibilities as bench coaches though.
I don’t know whether Geten is or not managerial material. Hall of fame Manager Joe Torre was 894-1003 before he took the Yankee job. I guess some here would have called him a dumpster fire of a hire. Difficult to evaluate managers. If I recall Boche is a lifetime under 500 manager. But he almost certainly will make it to the hall.
Your Mets are still a complete joke! despite the fact your owner thinks he’s the second coming of Steinbrenner.
I see you still drinking the hater juice. Might have to be that person for a while there bud.
And you’re the second coming of Pee Wee Herman.
Pat Ragazzo
@ragazzoreport
Sources: Mets ace pitcher Max Scherzer has made it known that he prefers Buck Showalter to be the team’s next manager
That musta hurt Brads feelings
Showalter is about the best the Mets can do at this point.
Really nothing unusual about this process. Fans are projecting some false “LOL” narrative that just isn’t there.
Not the process, but the Scherzer report is a bit unusual. Thanks for the opinion, but not very helpful right now, Max !
Scherzer just wants Showalter because he’ll let him throw complete games til his arm falls off
Considering the season they had last year, and the continued dysfunction in the organization, I’d say the “LOL Mets narrative” isn’t really that far off base.
Is being manager of the Mets manager really an upgrade from being the Dodgers bench coach?
If it pays more, yes. If you can take the Mets into the playoffs, yes. Generally in terms of job description, yes.
Is this really a serious question that is being asked here? Are you really asking if it’s better to be a manager than a bench coach? The sheer idiocy that comes with hating on the Mets on here is mind-boggling.
The lockout, I Geren-tee it.
Even Ozzie Guillen said he didn’t want that Mets job!!
Bob Geren was a really bad manager with the Oakland A’s just ask his RPs who blasted him to the media. He was a prior bench coach for the Mets who had to manage when Terry Collins was absent or tossed and he is clueless. NEXT!
Just hire Bruce Bochy or Buck Showalter. Why is this not a slam dunk?
Geren isn’t a bad option honestly. The A’s team was garbage back then
go check out what Brian Fuentes had to say about Geren. another player called Geren “the worst person in baseball” or something to that effect.
Huston Street called him that
Two of the shakier closers of the last 20 years didn’t like Geren’s management style. That’s not saying much.
This is Sandy Alderson’s choice as he likes his incompetent buddies.
I don’t think this will be his call but it is sad that he still has influence.
Geren has been the bench coach for the best team (W-L) in baseball for multiple years. I’m thinking he’s an A-okay guy.
Mets just can’t hire another rookie manager. Just about anyone else would do.
It didn’t work out very well the last time the Metsies hired a former A’s manager.
Howe was the worst.
I loved how bad the movie Moneyball made Howe look. I don’t know how much of it was true but he sure looked terrible in that movie. It’s hard to believe how much credit he got for that team and how much the Mets paid him after all that. That team was built around Hudson, Zito and Mulder. I don’t thing Arte Howe had as much to do with its success as some people thought at the time. The movie is definitely just one point of view but it made it look like the A’s won in spite of Howe as opposed to because of him.
When the Mets hired Howe Fred Wilpon claimed that Howe “lit up the room”. Apparently his interview was conducted in an abandoned mine shaft.
and Howe!
Bochy is retired, so it looks like your ‘slam dunk’ got rejected at the rim.
Add in the basic reality of free will, and Robrock’s 2nd paragraph seems exceptionally naive, even for an internet comment board.
Because Bochy doesn’t want to manage on the East coast?
Ausmus or Geren. Wow let’s pay top $$$ on players and hire someone who has no business being in a dugout.
The Mets should turn this into a reality show for our amusement. The baseball head guy can be one of the judges.
Kind of like KISS owning a football team?
insane out-of-the-box idea but is david cone on record as having no interest in managing?
Get back in your box
Just slip out the back, Jack
(Mets appropriate song allusion)
Make a new plan, Stan
worth a shot 🙂
Ozzie Gullien, in NY. Come on Mets, make it happen.
@duffys cliff- Ozzie Guillen…Isn’t that Nick Swisher’s favorite manager?
Why not go full loose canon and hire Tony Bernazard?
Ozzie is absolutely the best available. The man knows how to manage a team better than anyone else that was mentioned as being considered in the article. However his mouth and the tweets his sons put out have put him on baseballs black list. Too bad. He would be able to get the most out of the squad.
This would be a terrible life decision. He would be better off holding out for the San Antonio Scorpions job.
Bob Geren was a really good defensive catcher. I just don’t think he’s managerial material though. Mets should pass and hire Buck Showalter, who would be the best manager in NY.
We all know that the Mets should be interviewing Rich Coutinho to be their manager.
Adam Rubin
Mike Francesa.
Mad Dog is a better fit for Team Choas.
Right, “team chaos”, the team no free agent would ever sign with… except that’s clearly not true. It’s like people thing they’ll get paid if they trash talk the Mets around here.
They just all think they’re funny. Every Mets article is loaded with people regurgitating the same stale jokes over and over, I don’t know how many times you can type ‘omg LOLMets’ and still laugh, but judging by some of the uncreative rubes around here, the answer is at least a billion.
It amazes me just how much people hate the (Amazin?) Mets. I may hate the Yankees, but not to the level it requires me to go out of my way to bad mouth them every chance I get.
@Cosmo2- I don’t think it can all be attributed to MetsFan22, but it seems like there has been more reactionary negativity toward the Mets occurred on the boards due to that “least best” Mets fan.
That user and all the controversies, of course.
If I was a fan of every team in baseball, I’d be more upset about the Front Offices of: Rockies(general incompetence) Reds (same as Rockies), Marins (Loria-related), Angels (Arte issues), Diamondbacks (PHX is 5th largest city in US-revenue?) Astros (worst apology in recent years), Cubs (owners not spending in hope WS drought ending brings them endless goodwill), and then maybe the Mets.
But I may be biased as a Dodger fan.
occurring* :/
paddy: Agree totally. But let’s face it, the Mets have been a bit comical this off-season with the Mad Billionaire Tweeter (the other one) as owner, the front office staff from the planet Zargaz, and jobs nobody seemed to want. Moreover, they washed their laundry in public, which, to some degree is because of where they are, and that part is understandable; but it was still a bit much.
Fair comment. And sensible.
So what the heck is it doing on here?!
@Bob Good points about tweeting and the public perception of the Mets.
@rct I felt similarly reading the failed puns in the comments of the Christian Colon article. So many comments as if his last name was pronounced just like the synonym of the large intestine.
I’ve long disliked the Mets, really ever since I had to watch Glavine pitch in that uniform. Hatred kinda waned for awhile. But I can tell you they sit a’top my most hated list now again because of Cohen, who, to me, is one of the more dislikeable owners in sports.
MetsFan22 also gets a pinch of the credit (blame) for that.
There are some really good Mets fans on this site, though.
It’s because of 1986. Zero championships in this century in that huge market. Besides, the other four teams in their division all have a title this century.
The following teams have ‘zero championships in this century’ and garner nowhere near the hatred the Mets do on this site:
Rays, Blue Jays, Orioles, Indians/Guardians, Tigers, Twins, Mariners, As, Rangers, Brewers, Reds, Pirates, Padres, Rockies.
Seems like a weird cut-off. And saying the ‘other four teams in their division have a title this century’ is equally odd. I’d take the Mets any day over the Marlins, who are one of the biggest jokes in professional sports. I don’t care that they won one 18 years ago. They’ve had even worse ownership issues than the Mets, they won’t spend, can’t hold onto any homegrown talent, trade everyone away, and every year it’s ‘wow, there’s so much potential on this team, wait until next year!’ and then they lose 90+ games again the next year.
You missed one MAJOR point though. None of the teams you mentioned play in NEW YORK.
In my lifetime, NL East teams have done the following…
Braves: Two championships
Marlins: Two championships
Nationals: One championship
Phillies: One championship
Mets: ZERO championships
@48. So I take it you were born after 1986? Enjoy being young. Once I hit about 43 I started feeling aches and pains I never felt before and I’m in pretty good shape.
Dodgers/A’s was the first World Series in my lifetime. I missed Cardinals/Twins by just a few weeks.
Oh look it’s the “this century” type commenter. Kinda fits you perfectly based on your other comments
I’m pretty sure the current century is what’s relevant now. I’m sure you think that the A’s, Orioles, Reds and Pirates titles are all recent enough to be relevant though. You could honestly say the cutoff for being relevant is actually 2010 but that just hurts the case for the Mets being relevant even more. It would mean that the Phillies and Marlins don’t have any relevant titles though so that’s fine with me.
Eff you Manfred. I’m looking at Bob Geren news clips for my baseball fix. Bob Geren. Now I’m commenting on the freakin article. It’s a couple days in and I’m already a lost dipshihit.
right there with you. called my mom and told her to clear out the basement
#AnybodyButAusmus
Call Giambi. He handled NYC with class throughout his time across town.
Geren? Ham n egger manager. Buck Showalter would be the best choice.
Mets can have Dave Roberts and we’ll keep Geren !!!!
If that happened I wonder where Vegas would put the over/under for Max asking for a trade? O/U 4m 59s?
Mets can have Dave Roberts and we’ll keep Geren.
I liked it better with the exclamation points. Brought more personality to the post.
Clairemont’s finest
I think I would rather see nothing on baseball than a string of articles on who is interviewed or hired as coaches or grade z players signing in Japan or KBO.
Amen!
They could at least come up with hypothetical expansion franchises. That would be less boring than this.
Hire Mike S. He did great job in St Louis.
Why don’t Mets hire Mike S.? He did great job with St Louis with only two superstars and mediocre pitchers.
I know you mean Schildt, but calling him “Mike S,” seems to neglect the most accomplished, famous….Mike Schmidt.
He’s not a likely managerial candidate…but my point still holds.
I’m pretty sure it’ll be Ausmus
Make it really interesting. Hire Howard Johnson.
Make it really interesting. Hire Lenny Dykstra
make it super interesting. hire bobby bonilla
Make it supernaturally interesting. Hire Gary Carter.
Employment would help his likely future need for organ transplants.
Lol. Hire Doc Gooden as pitching coach, Strawberry hitting coach and bring along an in house drug counselor!!
Strawberry is actual a changed man. Look it up.
I wasn’t a huge fan of Shildt but he got a raw deal in STL and the Mets could do worse.
Still something tells me due to his differences with Mozeliak that it has tarnished his reputation a tad.
Seeing how Cora & Hinch are managing again, why dont the Mets bring back Beltran?
Because this teams needs a safe, controversy free hire. They have enough headlines that don’t actually involve baseball.
Former A’s managers…ugh. Remember Art Howe?
Where is Billy Martin when we need him?
Somewhere having a cocktail with Mick and Whitey……
Work out compensation and acquire LaRussa! That would be pretty Metsy.
Did they get To the end of the list already?
How’s Max’s form ?
Possibly well intentioned and/or the reports are exaggerated, but bloody hell, not exactly helpful.
The Mets have been turned down more than Shemp Howard was in the 3 Stooges short “ The Brideless Groom” I hope they don’t hire Cousin Basil.
I hope they hire Buck. I wanna see him in the dugout again. Be a great hire for them.
Just hire Buck Showalter already
Gomez Adams…..think of the coaching staff…. “Thing” coming out to take the ball from the starting pitcher (and patting him on the butt)…. Cousin It as 1B coach…..
As long as nobody spoke French to the manager…..
Even if you have to hold off until the lockout is over, trade J.D. Davis to the Diamondbacks for Torey Lovullo or to the Twins for Rocco Baldelli, both teams where Davis’ bat would play well with his three years control left.
What happened to the Mets minor league manager that was being considered two years ago? Not Rojas, I think Tony ??? He was quite well respected within the organization at that time. Why bring him in as bench coach in training to Showalter?
From an Angels angle, are there any trusted managers in the system with MLB experience?
I don’t see Cohen green lighting anyone to drive his new machine that doesn’t have real MLB experience.
I could see a Mets/Mariners World Series in 2099.
No. You won’t.
Tebow!
Geren is a perfect choice he is a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSER like the Mets will be no matter who the Mgr is 3rd place finish at best.Scherzer already trying to throw his weight around.
The Mets will have a dynasty…
In the ‘70s
Ausmus. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Not too shabby for comment #100, eh what?
The Buck stops here!
Just sign Showalter already please, this is getting annoying
Yeah should be a no brainer. I hope all these other interviews are just for the sake of saying “we had an interview process.”
If Buck takes this job he is desperate