2001 TOPPS EMPLOYEES BENNY AGBAYANI Back in the summer of 2006, I attended my first and only Chiba Lotte Marines home game. The team was still flush with the success of having won the 2005 NPB championship, and the anonymous concrete ballpark was festooned with pictures of the Marines' beloved manager, Bobby Valentine. The souvenir [...]
Yesterday the Boston Red Sox announced that Bobby Valentine will be their new manager. He's been out of professional baseball since 2009 and hasn't managed in the MLB since 2002 with the Mets. In all he has 15 years of managing experience in the MLB and seven years in Japan. Valentine began his managing career [...]
Counting interim managers, the Mets have had 20 different skippers in their 50 seasons. Nine of those also played for the Mets before becoming managers. Here is an alphabetical listing of those nine managers, along with their ranks as overall players, their time playing with the Mets and their time managing our favorite team. Yogi [...]
"We put very good players in place who didn't play very well. It's best to jump-start and get a manager to motivate these players and get the best out of the veterans and the young players," owner Fred Wilpon said at a news conference. "I believe these guys are as good as we all thought [...]