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Cashman reminded Stearns of the excellent job Mendoza did as Boone’s understudy. Chronicle Contributor Mendoza was asked if he spoke with Yankees It remains to be seen how successful a manager Carlos Mendoza will be, but he certainly dis- third base coach Luis Rojas about the Mets job. played plenty of personality at his introductory Rojas was the Mets manager for two years before being let go after the 2021 season. He said he had press conference. Yes, he said the boilerplate stuff about the but revealed nothing else. I must assume Rojas Mets’ passionate fan base, and being impressed must have mentioned some red flags. Most managers get to choose their coaching with the team’s culture. The word “accountability” was liberally thrown around, as it has been at staff. Mendoza announced Jeremy Hefner, who every new manager/head coach hiring press con- served as Mets pitching coach under Rojas and Buck Showalter, would return in 2024. Mendoza fab since Adam and Eve. On a more positive note, he thanked his fam- admitted he had never met or spoken with him. He laughed when I mentioned how Hefner is ily for giving him the chance to indulge his dreams of a Major League Baseball career, and the Andrei Gromyko of baseball coaches. Grothe struggles which have come with it, speaking myko held many high-level posts in the Soviet passionately in English and Spanish. He Union from the days of Josef Stalin right up to acknowledged being the consolation prize as the Mikhail Gorbachev. Hefner mysteriously surMets failed to land their top choice, Craig vives every Mets regime change. The pitching Counsell, with good humor. He also thanked was atrocious last year, and not just because of former Yankees executive Mark Newman for injuries. Two young starters the Mets were counting on, Tylor Megill and David Peterson, both encouraging him to be a big-league skipper. Although he is technically a first-time manag- badly regressed. Reporters kept asking Mendoza if his good er, Mendoza was the Yankees bench coach the last four years, which meant he ran the team friend Willie Randolph would be his bench whenever Aaron Boone was thrown out of a coach. I would be surprised if 38-year-old David game for arguing with an umpire. That was a fre- Stearns, who fired 67-year-old Buck Showalter, quent occurrence. Mets President of Baseball would bring in the 69-year-old Randolph who Operations David Stearns said he had many con- has not been a manager or a coach since 2011. Q See the extended version of Sports Beat versations with his Yankees counterpart, Brian Cashman, about Mendoza. You can be certain every week at qchron.com.
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