It was when the Mets were floundering when Mendoza truly found his footing.
This was early March, Port St. Lucie, a time in baseball when nothing seems impossible, when you can connect the dots all the way from spring to summer to autumn and believe every word of it.
Most rookie managers don’t talk the way Carlos Mendoza talked that day, as the rain fell outside at Clover. You’ve known youthful people who have “old souls?” Mendoza was an old-soul manager. He talked like a man with a couple of thousand games already under his belt.“What I like,” he said, “is that I have a bunch of guys who want to be here, and a bunch of guys who want to play hard and play winning baseball every day.
Sure, it’s easy to put that all into some kind of context now, almost seven months later, with the Mets cooling their heels as they wait for the identity of theiropponent to be revealed. I could lie and declare: “I saw genius in the man’s eyes and brilliance in his soul!”Mets not a better team than us: Phillies’ Nick Castellanos
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