Luis Rojas ultimately earned the job and guided the Mets to an overall record of and zero playoff appearances across a pair of campaigns before the club announced Monday it had declined the option attached to Rojas' contract.
Time heals all wounds, and the Mets need a new manager. However, not everyone is convinced the Mets would go back to Beltran if presented with the opportunity:. There is very little that I am certain of in this life. It's worth noting such speculation seems silly since the Mets also need to hire a new president of baseball operations who ideally would have a significant say regarding the person who becomes the club's next manager. The Mets said they will consider a number of internal and external candidates to be their next manager, but the rush is on to find a replacement in the 27 days before pitchers and catchers report to spring training.
The year-old Beltran, with no managerial experience, was hired to replace Mickey Callaway as Mets skipper on Nov. The former New York slugger was given a three-year contract with a club option for and introduced three days later during a news conference at Citi Field. Beltran becomes the first manager to be let go without managing a game since Wally Backman, who was hired by Arizona in November and fired four days later after legal and financial problems were revealed.
The Mets are one of 10 teams to change managers since opening day last year — and now they are doing it twice. Beltran played the last of his 20 big-league seasons with the Astros in Even though Cora was subsequently let go, the Red Sox remain under investigation for stealing signs during his first season as manager in , when they won the World Series.
In a Nov. Players banged on a trash can to signal batters what kind of pitch was coming, believing it would improve their chances of getting a hit. There have been further rumblings that Astros players wore small, electronic buzzers under their uniforms that tipped them off to certain pitches.
Justin Toscano NorthJersey. Show Caption. Hide Caption. Here's how the Astros' players plan on apologizing for scandal. What I'm Hearing: Bob Nightengale spoke with Red Sox and Astros camps to get a sense of how both clubs are preparing for their onslaught of questions about the sign stealing scandal.
He also found out how Houston plans on apologizing. Hopefully that happens to him. So he did not emulate, say, Barry Bonds or Roger Clemens defiantly denying that they utilized illegal performance-enhancing drugs, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.
He acknowledged some wrongdoing. Hence Beltran, if he indeed wants to manage again, probably would have to face specific questions about the severity and intensity of his involvement. Time heals some wounds, definitely not all, in this instance.
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