{"id":178593,"date":"2025-09-29T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178593\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:34:07","slug":"mendoza-will-return-as-mets-manager-following-2025-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178593\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendoza will return as Mets manager following 2025 collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Carlos Mendoza will return as manager of the New York Mets next season, after his high-priced team faded badly in the second half this year and missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At a news conference Monday to discuss the collapse, President of Baseball Operations David Stearns said Mendoza is definitely coming back. Anything else would have been a surprise, considering Mendoza was a huge hit last year in his debut and remains under contract through 2026 with a club option for 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI believe Carlos has all the same traits and assets that I believed in when we hired him two years ago, and I think over the course of his tenure here he has demonstrated that,\u201d Stearns said. \u201cWe had a tough year this year, there\u2019s no question. We are all disappointed, we are all frustrated \u2014 Mendy as much or more than anyone else. But I still believe he\u2019s a very good manager and I think he\u2019s going to demonstrate that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coming off a rousing and unexpected trip to the 2024 National League Championship Series, the Mets added free-agent slugger Juan Soto last offseason and began this year with a major league-high $322.6 million payroll on opening day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They built the best record in baseball at 45-24 through June 12, then went 38-55 the rest of the way to finish 83-79. Needing a victory Sunday to earn the final NL wild card, they missed the postseason with a 4-0 loss at Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Mike Fitzpatrick, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Carlos Mendoza will return as manager of the New York Mets next season, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-178593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}