All issues being equal, the New York Mets hiring MLB veteran Buck Showalter to be their supervisor might show to be the league’s prime offseason transfer.
The 2021 Mets ended the marketing campaign at 77-85, however this 12 months’s version of the staff started Monday at 89-52, holding a 1.5-game lead over the second-place Atlanta Braves within the Nationwide League East standings. Throughout the whole league, solely the Los Angeles Dodgers (96-43) and Houston Astros (90-50) have higher data than the Mets.
For a chunk revealed on Monday, Anthony DiComo of the MLB web site defined that Showalter has a “excessive” likelihood of successful NL Supervisor of the Yr honors over fellow contenders akin to Rob Thomson of the Philadelphia Phillies, Oliver Marmol of the St. Louis Cardinals and Dave Roberts of the Dodgers.
The 78-62 Phillies could be a wild-card staff if the playoffs began as we speak below Thomson, who took over for the fired Joe Girardi in June. In the meantime, the 83-58 Cardinals have an eight-game lead over the second-place Milwaukee Brewers within the NL Central standings.
“Showalter has garnered close to common reward for his dealing with of the membership in his first season on the helm,” DiComo wrote. “Ought to the Mets win the division, Showalter will in all probability be the MOY frontrunner over Rob Thomson (who has executed a pleasant job turning across the Phillies however had solely managed a part of the season), Dave Roberts (whose Dodgers appear to thrive yearly) or Oli Marmol (whose Cardinals do the identical).
“If Showalter wins, it will be historic for the Mets, who’re considered one of two groups (together with the Brewers) by no means to make use of a Supervisor of the Yr because the award’s inception in 1983.”
The Mets open a three-game house sequence in opposition to the lowly Chicago Cubs (58-82) on Monday night.
