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Mets Make Major Coaching Changes
The Mets announced some changes to the coaching staff today in a press release. Third base coach Chip Hale will be leaving the organization, while first base coach Mookie Wilson and bullpen coach John Debus will be offered other jobs within the organization. Bench coach Ken Oberkfell will not...
Wally Backman Will Manage Double-A Binghamton Mets
Adam Rubin reports that Wally Backman and his belly fire will be the new manager of the Double-A Binghamton Mets, a big promotion from last year's role at the helm of the Brooklyn Cyclones of the NY Penn league, some three levels below Binghamton. Tim Teufel, who managed Binghamton last year, will...
Mets Announce 2011 Coaching Staff
The Mets have announced their 2011 coaching staff. Here they are in written form: Manager: Terry Collins Bench Coach: Ken Oberkfell Pitching Coach: Dan Warthen Hitting Coach: Dave Hudgens Third Base Coach: Chip Hale First Base Coach: Mookie Wilson Bullpen Coach: Jon Debus And now pictorially:
Wally Backman As Mets Manager Is A Bad Idea
Jerry Manuel's dismissal after the season seems imminent, so discussion about the Mets' next manager has materialized. One name that consistently pops up, for some reason, is Wally Backman, former Mets second baseman and current manager of the Single-A Brooklyn Cyclones. I say "for some reason"...
Have We Settled Anything?
Much like each successive episode of Lost, the Mets' own sci-fi melodramatic love story has left us with more questions than answers after Wille Randolph, Rick Peterson and Tom Nieto were canned in the middle of the night. Questions like: Why now? Why did the Mets string everyone -- Randolph,...
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