{"id":898208,"date":"2026-06-28T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/898208\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:48:36","slug":"theres-an-unorthodox-test-the-mets-should-try-in-their-manager-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/898208\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s an unorthodox test the Mets should try in their manager search"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no magic formula.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Joe Torre was far from the first choice to manage the Yankees. Mike Brown was far from the first choice<\/a> to coach the Knicks. Both came questioned by fans, media and the industry \u2014 and those questions persisted into their first seasons; seasons that would end with drought-ending championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The executives who were around then will tell you that Torre was hired in a slapdash way, with little background work and based more on having preexisting relationships with folks who had George Steinbrenner\u2019s ear. Yet, Steinbrenner had such buyer\u2019s remorse that he \u2014 depending on who you believe \u2014 either contemplated rehiring Buck Showalter in the weeks after naming Torre or actually offered him the job back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unlike in his three previous stops, Torre\u2019s calm-bomb-dropping persona proved ideal to manage in Steinbrenner\u2019s chaotic world for what became the dynastic Yankees. Torre was terrific, a deserving Hall of Famer. But his blessing was arriving in The Bronx simultaneously with Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, still the two most self-confident players I have covered in four decades. Brown having Jalen Brunson as the team thermometer sure helped too.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no magic formula.\u00a0 Joe Torre was far from the first choice to manage the Yankees. Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":898209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,128111,27639,62486,363867,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-898208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-carlos-mendoza","tag-david-stearns","tag-j-d-martinez","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116826636490730214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}