New York Mets: Mickey Callaway Has One Foot Out the Door

Callaway On the Verge of Being Out the Door

This all happened after the New York Mets fired their pitching coach last week in favor of an 82-year-old.

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Mickey Callaway was brought in because of how he managed a very talented Indians pitching staff in the World Series, and you could say the Mets pitching staff is similar to Cleveland’s if they had the right guidance.

Well, as I said the 2nd year manager has already let go his pitching coach, which means there is already a state of confusion inside the clubhouse, and then the very next weekend the Mets lose a huge series finale because the manager didn’t make the right decision.

The reporters are doing their job by asking him why he didn’t pull Lugo, but Callaway didn’t do his properly.

A manager of a Major League Baseball team is the face of the franchise. It talks to the media multiple times a day and somewhat controls what the public thinks of the franchise.

Callaway totally failed at his job on Sunday in so many ways.

The New York Mets hired Jim Riggleman to be his bench coach, and ironically Riggleman is the king of interim managers. He has managed 1,630 games as the interim manager including stints with the Seattle Mariners (2008), Washington Nationals (2009), and most notably the Cincinnati Reds after Bryan Price‘s dismissal (2018).

New York is playing the Phillies in Philadelphia, and Gabe Kapler‘s squad has lost 7 straight games including being swept this weekend by the Miami Marlins, so if New York struggles this week I would not be surprised if a change was made not in favor of Mickey Callaway.

Therefore, he already has a foot out the door because he was walking towards the door when his pitching staff was underperforming so Dave Eiland got shown the door, but now GM Brodie Van Wagenen is just about ready to push Callaway out the door after his latest antics.