Mets may end up trying another first-time manager
Novice or known commodity? As the Mets continue their managerial search, Joe Girardi remains on the board — at least for the moment — but at least five other candidates, none of whom have managed in...
View ArticleFox’s Kevin Burkhardt on return of David Ortiz after shooting
Fox studio host and former SNY Mets reporter Kevin Burkhardt talks with The Post’s Justin Terranova about David Ortiz’s return, Carlos Beltran’s Mets chances and World Series pitching. Q: How did the...
View ArticleReggie Jackson endorses Carlos Beltran for Mets managerial job
One October legend would like to see the Mets hire another for their vacant managerial job. “Carlos Beltran is just a classy act, loves baseball, knows baseball, a good deep thinker and I think just...
View ArticleMets eliminate Nationals’ Tim Bogar from managerial search
The Mets have decided not to bring Nationals first-base coach Tim Bogar in for a third interview, thus eliminating him from consideration to be the next manager, The Post has learned. Bogar was...
View ArticleMets make Carlos Beltran their new manager
The Mets are going back to the future for their new manager. Carlos Beltran, who played seven seasons with the team as part of his likely Hall of Fame résumé, was hired Friday as Mickey Callaway’s...
View ArticleCarlos Beltran is Brodie Van Wagenen’s latest bold Mets move
Once the Mets determined Joe Girardi was not going to be their manager, their front office understood that the net was removed and they were walking a tightrope on a windy day. All that was left on...
View ArticleMets-Carlos Beltran history shows how surprising this hire really is
The news breaks in the middle of a Friday afternoon — Carlos Beltran hired to manage the Mets! — and all at once a collage of snapshots rolls past the mind’s eye … HAINES CITY, Fla., March 26, 1998 —...
View ArticleAlex Cora thinks Carlos Beltran will be ‘outstanding’ for Mets
No one in baseball knows Carlos Beltran better than Red Sox manager Alex Cora. Both men grew up in Puerto Rico, becoming close friends. They were teammates on the 2009-10 Mets. They won a World Series...
View ArticleMets’ Carlos Beltran mentioned in same sentence as this top manager
It’s hard enough to predict how a manager with big league experience will do in New York leading the Mets. And impossible to know how it will turn out with a man who has never managed a game at any...
View ArticleMets’ Beltran-Van Wagenen duo joins shaky GM/coaching scene
Well, we have a new GM/coach combo in town, and time will tell if the Brodie Van Wagenen/Carlos Beltran partnership will bring joy, angst or something else to Mets fans. So this is as good a time as...
View ArticleTerry Collins could resurface with Carlos Beltran’s Mets
Carlos Beltran will be formally introduced Monday as the new Mets manager, filling the team’s most significant opening on the staff, but other key components remain in question. At the top of that list...
View ArticleCarlos Beltran’s ugly Mets past can save him as manager
You see the look, and you know the condition. Countless baseball people over the years — players, managers, executives and the rest — have agreed to work for the New York Mets. They enter wide-eyed and...
View ArticleMets’ media obsession put Carlos Beltran over the top
Those involved in the Mets’ search for a new manager describe a process that was thorough, cordial and professional. But also one that had an obsession with finding someone who would excel in media...
View ArticleThe Mets questions Carlos Beltran, Brodie Van Wagenen must answer
Carlos Beltran will receive the full celebratory treatment in his return to Queens on Monday, when he is introduced as the 22nd manager in Mets history. For a third straight offseason, the Mets...
View ArticleCarlos Beltran leaves Wilpon rift behind upon becoming Mets manager
Carlos Beltran is leaning on his past to help him as a first-time manager, except for looking back on old disagreements with the Mets. The organization welcomed their former outfielder home Monday...
View ArticleCarlos Beltran won’t be making all the decisions as Mets manager
Carlos Beltran is ready to start collaborating. Introduced Monday as the 22nd manager in Mets history, the former All-Star outfielder realizes he’s returning to the organization in a leadership role,...
View ArticleBrodie Van Wagenen’s slip-up foreshadows Carlos Beltran’s Mets challenge
Carlos Beltran escorted his family to their seats and before taking the stage for his introductory press conference he patted his youngest child on the butt and 4-year-old Evan Carlos began to cry....
View ArticleMets-Carlos Beltran reunion hinged on this other meeting
Of the dozens of meetings that took place over the past month regarding the Mets’ managerial opening, you could argue the most important one concerned a reunion and a reassurance. “We had a very nice...
View ArticleDidi Gregorius’ telling comments after not receiving Yankees qualifying offer
Didi Gregorius’ first public statement after not receiving a qualifying offer from the Yankees was to congratulate two other men no longer with the organization. The free-agent shortstop used his...
View ArticleWhy Carlos Delgado thinks Carlos Beltran will ace this Mets test
The two men, past teammates representing both their native land and a major-league team, share so much history and so many interests. Yet among the primary reasons that Carlos Delgado believes that...
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