Hefner will have a new job before he goes to bed tonite. He will then impart the Mets pitching lab secrets to whichever team he goes to next. The hitting coaches needed to go. Chavez was never a great hitter when he played. If JD is done playing or they are done punishing Beltran they would be my choices. Why Mendoza gets a free pass is bewildering. I hope Cohen knows where the real blame lies and that’s Stearns. He thought he was smarter than every other GM or president that ever put together a team in the history of baseball and thought he could keep using reclamation projects and other crappy pitchers that he got away with last year and it would work again. It failed spectacularly. He is the main person to blame and Cohen doesn’t need to call him out publicly but I hope he laid into him.
I can see this kind of housecleaning if the Mets had finished under .500 — but let’s not kid ourselves, this is scapegoating the coaching staff for management’s failures.
The front office built a roster with gaping flaws, didn’t address them when the cracks first showed, and then acted stunned when the avalanche hit. You can shuffle hitting coaches and third-base coaches all day, but that doesn’t erase the lack of pitching depth, the bullpen meltdowns, or the poor roster construction that left the team exposed when the injuries piled up.
Yes, the team underachieved, and yes, a 4.95 ERA in the last three months is ugly. But were Hefner and Chávez the ones who passed on real reinforcements at the deadline? Were they the ones who bet on fragile arms and streaky bats? Coaches make tweaks — they don’t set budgets, dictate strategy at the top, or decide to ride “math” until the wheels fall off.
This isn’t accountability; it’s convenient bloodletting. Until the Mets actually address the structural failures of the organization — starting with the people putting the roster together — changing out coaches is just window dressing.
Hefner will have a new job before he goes to bed tonite. He will then impart the Mets pitching lab secrets to whichever team he goes to next. The hitting coaches needed to go. Chavez was never a great hitter when he played. If JD is done playing or they are done punishing Beltran they would be my choices. Why Mendoza gets a free pass is bewildering. I hope Cohen knows where the real blame lies and that’s Stearns. He thought he was smarter than every other GM or president that ever put together a team in the history of baseball and thought he could keep using reclamation projects and other crappy pitchers that he got away with last year and it would work again. It failed spectacularly. He is the main person to blame and Cohen doesn’t need to call him out publicly but I hope he laid into him.
I can see this kind of housecleaning if the Mets had finished under .500 — but let’s not kid ourselves, this is scapegoating the coaching staff for management’s failures.
The front office built a roster with gaping flaws, didn’t address them when the cracks first showed, and then acted stunned when the avalanche hit. You can shuffle hitting coaches and third-base coaches all day, but that doesn’t erase the lack of pitching depth, the bullpen meltdowns, or the poor roster construction that left the team exposed when the injuries piled up.
Yes, the team underachieved, and yes, a 4.95 ERA in the last three months is ugly. But were Hefner and Chávez the ones who passed on real reinforcements at the deadline? Were they the ones who bet on fragile arms and streaky bats? Coaches make tweaks — they don’t set budgets, dictate strategy at the top, or decide to ride “math” until the wheels fall off.
This isn’t accountability; it’s convenient bloodletting. Until the Mets actually address the structural failures of the organization — starting with the people putting the roster together — changing out coaches is just window dressing.