MLB: Why hasn’t the Mets finalized its coaching staff and who is on its coaching staff?

The New York Mets they’re behind most other teams when it comes to assembling their coaching staff, as they also had to make a front-office hire that filled the first part of their 2021-2022 offseason.

They eventually hired Billy Eppler as general manager in mid-November, but he had to focus on free agency with the clock ticking on the lockout looming — days before the current strike:

Once the labor shutdown was implemented in December and major league transactions were frozen, the club shifted its attention to the coaching staff, and most of the 2021 crew was not retained. Buck Showalter was the first piece of the puzzle, being hired as manager on December 20, replacing Luis Rojas.

After a break in activity over the holidays, the Mets reportedly added first base coach, Wayne Kirby, Puerto Rican third base coach Joey Cora and hitting coach Eric Chavez, in the last days.

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Jeremy Hefner is the only one back for the third year in a row and he’s the pitching coach. Bank Coach and Showalter’s right arm are missing. There are already four discarded: Ryan Flaherty, Jeff Pickler, Andy Stankiewicz, and Andrew Bailey.


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I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and all Mexican baseball in general. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterruptedly since 2009), signatures of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, although as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I have baseball in my veins. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and a reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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MLB: Why hasn’t the Mets finalized its coaching staff and who is on its coaching staff?