While I wasn’t the biggest fan of Mickey Hodges Callaway, every now and then my brain remembers that the Mets fired him because……um……let’s take a look.
At Catcher, Wilson Ramos his .288 with 14 HRs. So that’s not an issue (and good job Mr. GM)
At 1B, I guess I could scold Mickey for not teaching Vulgar Pete Alonso how to be more like Wright and Jeter and less like Matt Harvey (it is spelled LGM Peter) – but the rookie was well integrated into the team. Good job Mickey.
At 2B – Cano was a disaster. While we’re on the subject, the two problems with the team were Cano and Diaz. Whose fault is that?
SS and 3B – Rosario and Lyin’ Todd Frazier were fine.
McNeil, JD Davis (good job Mr. GM)…all fine.
JDG won two CYA in two years under Mickey. The Five Four Aces all won 10+. Nobody was amazing (well JDG did win the CYA) but nobody was a disaster.
The bullpen? Diaz was a closer. I don’t worry about middle relievers. A team could go 150-12 and will still have bullpen issues.
The Mets were 33-21 after August 1. There were 17-9 (.654) in September.
It seems (from my couch) like he had a nice clubhouse.
So what was the problem? Does this really come down to that he lost his cool with a guy named Tim and the rest of the beat poisoned the well?
Why did they get rid of this guy? Isn’t the job to keep a calm clubhouse….integrate rookies….get performance out of players? The only players he DIDN’T get a performance out of were the two involved with the albatross Cani-Diaz deal.
I don’t get it.
