And now the pressure rises.
Stearns needs to get someone as good or better than Buck Showalter now that he/the Mets decided to move on from the four-time Manager of the Year.No sir, the Mets can’t afford to take any more Mickey Callaway type flyers. That wasn’t OK even when they were operating under the Madoff-strapped Wilpons.Showalter took some hits for the Mets’ mistakes this year, as if teams don’t screw up plays occasionally. The issue with the Mets is they didn’t hit. And they pitched even worse.
While I would have liked to see Buck stay, I get it. Stearns should get his own guy. This way, if anything goes wrong, we can all give Stearns the Cashman treatment, which is how it should be.So while I can’t see any real issue with the decision to hire a new manager, he better be a damn good one. And he certainly better be one with significant experience.
The big question there is whether Counsell — a Milwaukee product and maybe the only current manager who resides year-round in the place he manages — will come. He seeks a nice raise from his $3.5 million salary, but the Brewers probably can compete here, seeing how Counsell has two homes in the Milwaukee area, two daughters in high school in Whitefish Bay, Wis., and two sons playing baseball in the midwestern portion of the Big Ten .
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