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Sunday, February 05, 2023
Former Mets great Carlos Beltran is getting another chance with the club.
Sources tell The Post the Mets are hiring their former star center fielder to join their front office, where he will work under GM Billy Eppler. It isn’t clear what Beltran’s duties will be yet, but he is a well-regarded baseball mind as well as a former superstar player.
Beltran’s hiring comes three years after he was hired as Mets manager then fired after he was linked to the Astros’ sign-stealing scandal. Mets manager Buck Showalter considered Beltran for his coaching staff a year ago as assistant hitting coach but wasn’t able to do it at the time.
Beltran recently informed YES Network that he was leaving his broadcast job with them. Andrew Marchand reported in The Post there were plans to move Beltran from broadcasting games into the studio to do pre- and post-game duties.
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1. Howie Menckel Posted: February 05, 2023 at 06:55 PM (#6115855)channel generally has had good choices over the years like Cone, Kaat, Singleton, etc. - so it was weird how badly they missed with those two.
Maybin actually was good on MLB Network, at least.
I think he played for something like 35 different MLB teams and had hundreds of teammates, so they had segments where Maybin would select which ex-teammate reminded him of certain current players. some surprises and amusements there.
I wouldn't be stunned if he's being groomed to succeed Showalter.
Is what they should have said in the first place. What kind of a "distraction" were they worried about? Booing on the road? Typical Wilpon move to wash their hands of him.
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