Mets poach Eric Chavez from Yankees as coaching staff grows

The players are locked out but Buck Showalter is nevertheless operating tough to develop his team — of coaches.

The New York Mets have been the most significant spenders — and winners — just before Important League Baseball locked out the players.

They landed a (second) ace in Max Scherzer, a top-tier centerfielder in Starling Marte and two much more high quality players in Eduardo Escobar and Mark Canha to get started rebuilding their lineup.

The next significant stage in the evolution of the franchise was discovering the appropriate manager. The Mets decided Buck Showalter was their male. And he definitely has a keep track of document that admirers can be excited about at Citi Subject.

Any time a new manager will come in, he needs to fill out his team. And Showalter has been operating tough to do just that, and we have a good notion of what his coaching team will glimpse like each time the 2022 period starts.

Stealing from the Pinstripes

A single of the scorching names in coaching rumors above the previous couple yrs has been Eric Chavez, very best regarded for his time as a marvelous 3rd baseman in Oakland. He was rumored to be heading to New York — with the Yankees.

But phrase on Thursday morning is that Chavez will be coming to the Mets as a substitute, getting to be the hitting mentor on Showalter’s team.

Eric Chavez will not be joining the Yankees coaching team immediately after all. For each source, Chavez will develop into the new Mets hitting mentor.

— Mark Feinsand (@Feinsand) January 6, 2022

Around the bases

Showalter is finalizing a offer with Joey Cora develop into his 3rd foundation mentor according to Mike Puma of The New York Put up. Cora is the more mature brother of Purple Sox manager Alex Cora and reportedly interviewed for the Mets’ managerial opening in the two 2018 and 2020.

Joey Cora experienced been the 3rd foundation mentor in Pittsburgh for the previous five yrs.

Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic is reporting that Showalter is bringing in an old friend to cope with initially foundation duties. Wayne Kirby, who was on Showalter’s team in Baltimore from 2011-18, will reportedly be his initially foundation mentor with the Mets. He expended the previous two yrs in San Diego but missing his position as part of the Padres’ coaching overhaul.

An awkward reunion?

The missing piece is a bench mentor.

And stories are swirling that the Mets could look at their former… manager?

Carlos Beltrán’s title has been connected to the bench mentor possibility with the Mets for some time now. He was infamously hired as the team’s manager just before unceremoniously getting terminated just before at any time essentially running a activity mainly because of his role in the Astros’ dishonest scandal.

Beltrán was a greatly highly regarded player and numerous appreciated the seek the services of as a manager. Some others, such as AJ Hinch, have moved on from the Astros’ scandal. Possibly it is time for Beltrán to as effectively. We’ll see if he will get tabbed as the bench mentor for Showalter.