{"id":188121,"date":"2025-10-03T19:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188121\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:37:11","slug":"mets-overhaul-manager-carlos-mendozas-staff-after-late-season-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188121\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets Overhaul Manager Carlos Mendoza&#8217;s Staff After Late-Season Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">The <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-mets-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> are moving on from pitching coach Jeremy Hefner as part of a staff overhaul after deciding to keep manager Carlos Mendoza despite missing the playoffs with the most expensive opening-day roster in baseball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Hitting coaches Jeremy Barnes and Eric Chavez and third base coach Mike Sarbaugh also won&#8217;t return, the team said Friday. Bench coach John Gibbons resigned, and catching coach Glenn Sherlock is retiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Hefner is being replaced despite some notable success stories, including <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/david-peterson-3-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Peterson<\/a> and <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/sean-manaea-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Manaea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Peterson was a 10-game winner in 2024 with a career-best 2.90 ERA. Manaea tied his career best with 12 wins last year and a 3.47 ERA. But that number ballooned to 5.64 in 15 appearances this year, including 12 starts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Pitching and defense were the biggest problems for a team that went 38-55 over the final 93 games after being an <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a>-best 45-24 in June. The offense wasn&#8217;t free of blame after the offseason signing of <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/juan-soto-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juan Soto<\/a> to a $765 million, 15-year deal. The megadeal put the cost of the Mets&#8217; roster at $429 million in payroll and projected luxury tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">When declaring this week that Mendoza would return, President of Baseball Operations David Stearns said the rest of the coaching staff would be evaluated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Assistant pitching coach Desi Druschel and bullpen coach Jos\u00e9 Rosado have been given permission to speak to other teams. First base coach Antoan Richardson, strategy coach Danny Barnes and coaching assistant Rafael Fernandez have been invited back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-a64fe1be=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? <a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n<p> FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience  <\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MLB.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"Major League Baseball\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Mets are moving on from pitching coach Jeremy Hefner as part of a staff overhaul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-188121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}