Buck Back In New York

After an extensive search, the New York Mets have finally found there man. Managers haven't come easy for the Mets the last two tries, so maybe as the old saying goes third time will be the charm. Buck Showalter has been named the 24th (23rd really since Beltran never coached a game) Manager of the New York Mets. Reports are the deal is for three years.

For me this brings about two questions. One how long is he going to last? Two can he bring the results?

Both can easily be answered over time. Given his past track record as a Major League manager, part of me says both will be a while and breed success. He's won at least 250 games at his previous stops with the Yankees (313 wins), Arizona (250 wins), Texas (319 wins) and Baltimore (669 wins). It hasn't really lead to a lot of post season success, but the numbers are there to be a success never the less. Buck is a players manager and knows how to be able to get the best out of the talent that he has around him. He's got to be better then the last two options in Mickey Calloway and Louis Rojas.

Its been a big last moth or so for the Mets as well. New manager in Showalter, new GM in Billy Eppler, new players in Max Scherzer, Starling Marte, Mark Canha, and Eduardo Escobar. All of these moves are expected to better this baseball team that has had losing records in four of the last five seasons and ten of the last thirteen. They've made the playoffs once in the last decade, that coming with there division title win in 2015.

Things have got to start changing for the Mets in a positive. They had a first place lead in the East for most of last year and missed the playoffs. Something had to change in New York and that started going in motion. On, paper it looks like things are going that way. New moves, new team. Now lets just see if the results pan out on the field.