New York Mets: What the future holds for Mickey Callaway
New York Mets manager Mickey Callaway was inherited by Brodie Van Wagenen, and with the rocky season, it could be the end of the road for Callaway in the Big Apple.
The New York Mets hired Mickey Callaway because of his work with the Cleveland Indians pitching staff. They believed that Callaway would be a perfect blend with arguably the most talented rotation in baseball, but it just hasn’t really worked out.
Callaway will be joined by Gabe Kapler and Joe Maddon as managers on the hot seat at the end of Sunday’s contests. Despite Maddon not blending with Theo Epstein’s philosophies, Callaway is the most obvious pick to be fired at the end of the weekend.
The decision would not even have to be justified. Van Wagenen, who is still in his first season with the Mets as their lead baseball decision-maker, was brought in with Callaway already in the manager’s seat.
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It would be easy for him to say that he wants his own guy in that spot to lead the team next season.
Callaway also has not been the best spokesman for the Mets. The manager is the franchise’s voice every day of the season. He talks to the media twice a day but with Callaway, it hasn’t exactly gone smoothly.
Back at Wrigley earlier this season, he cussed out a Newsday reporter after he made the uneducated decision to stay with Seth Lugo instead of going to Edwin Diaz. Callaway insisted that Diaz was the closer and that he did not want to use him in the ninth inning.
A combination of his in-game decision-making and rough handling of the media, he will be out the door pretty soon.
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It’s pretty simple. Mickey Callaway was not meant to be a manager of the New York Mets. He’s meant to be a pitching coach. When all he has to do is control the pitching staff, he is a very good coach but he just doesn’t know how to manage a whole team.