If the Mets don’t turn it around this season, it will be part of Buck Showalter’s legacy.
This is inarguable. This is a matter of record. If you have a hurting baseball team and you want that team to begin acting professionally and winning accordingly, there is no one better at the task than Buck Showalter.
This, too, is inarguable, and this, too, is a matter of record: Showalter has never been able to maintain that pace, for any number of reasons. With the Yankees, he had the misfortune of being George Steinbrenner’s last stand as a manager killer. With the D-backs and Rangers, the message became muted. The Orioles were victimized by a talent exodus.
For once, he would have all he could have ever wanted before. He had an owner with deep pockets — unlike Peter Angelos — and one that wasn’t an all-time flake with his managers, like Steinbrenner. He had a city, New York, with which he was familiar, working for fans who’d long ago silently envied the job he’d done with the other team in town. Judging by the 101-win joyride last year, he’d been planted amid players who bought in total what he was selling. It seemed a perfect marriage.
No manager ever born can defend against a hanging slider that’s bombed 475 feet, or can by himself combat an opposing ace who hits the black and the knees at 98 mph for eight innings. But he can have a team capable of playing smart, playing crisp, like its entire focus is in the game. And anyone who’s seen the Mets can see they’re not there right now.
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