{"id":444708,"date":"2026-09-23T03:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444708\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:06:09","slug":"players-react-to-andy-green-becoming-mets-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444708\/","title":{"rendered":"Players react to Andy Green becoming Mets manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Shortly after Andy Green\u2019s three-year contract with the Mets became official<\/a>, the news was announced to the clubhouse by the manager himself, along with president of baseball operations David Stearns. It was still early enough on Tuesday that word hadn\u2019t leaked to the public. The two couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n

It allowed Green to give a speech without any sort of preconceived notions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a world where everything leaks, we actually made it to tell the players,\u201d Green said Tuesday in a press conference at Globe Life Field. \u201cI just said to them that the bright lights next year will reveal the work they did or didn\u2019t do in the shadows of the offseason. We have a lot of work to do on an individual basis, and each one of those guys is responsible for coming back as a better version of themselves, and transferring that ownership over to them was imperative to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was much different than his first clubhouse speech, which came on June 26 shortly after the Mets fired manager Carlos Mendoza<\/a>. At that point, it was one thing that was extremely obvious to just about anyone who had spent any time around the team. The club made too many sweeping changes in too short of an amount of time. By removing the interim tag from Green, the Mets ensure there will be continuity next season, which was a welcome message.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t really want to go into the offseason thinking, what\u2019s going to happen and who is going to come in?\u201d said shortstop Francisco Lindor. \u201cMore changes now \u2014 it\u2019s a familiar phrase that\u2019s been around for a couple years now. But this is a guy that\u2019s been in the organization, in the clubhouse with us for the past three months, I believe, so I think it\u2019s a wise decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green took over at a time when the Mets were feeling more pressure than ever. Key position players were injured and veterans were underperforming. They kept losing, and losing badly.<\/p>\n

Green understood the pressure the team was facing, having been a major league player himself. He didn\u2019t want them thinking about what could have been and how many wins they\u2019d have to reel off to get back into contention. He wanted them focused on what they had to do individually that day to be successful, and nothing more, so they could go out and play free.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they\u2019ve played with a greater measure of freedom than they were around the time that I first came down, and I think you see that on a pretty daily basis,\u201d Green said. \u201cI\u2019m encouraged by those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old former farm director and former San Diego Padres manager has been praised for being a direct communicator. He isn\u2019t afraid to tell players when they failed, but when he delivers that info, they know it\u2019s coming from a place of belief and encouragement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that Mendoza couldn\u2019t do that, and it\u2019s not that the other coaches don\u2019t operate like that; it\u2019s just a different delivery method that is working for the Mets right now, so they don\u2019t want to interrupt it by changing voices yet again.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe communicates it in a way that you know you react to well,\u201d said second baseman Marcus Semien. \u201cYou want to work as hard as you can for that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The job of a manager in today\u2019s game is less about being a strong tactician and making the right switches at the right time. Managers today have little control over the lineups and in-game decision-making, and with the Mets having one of the most robust analytics groups in the league, they\u2019re no different than any other team in this respect. The job of a manager is to set the culture, the tone and the expectations of how the team will play.\u00a0He has to keep them motivated to meet those expectations.<\/p>\n

Green once led with too much of an edge and too much honesty. As the manager of the San Diego Padres from 2016-2019, Green wanted to show that he was the sole authority figure. It wasn\u2019t always effective.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did everything in San Diego. I ran spring training, I talked through every fundamental, I ensured, out of some level of insecurity, that everybody in the world saw me as the guy in charge of absolutely everything,\u201d Green said. \u201cI think it\u2019s a really unhealthy way to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Green has learned how to delegate coaching duties, and learned that different players require different communication. He knows himself better now, and he knows the most important thing is to elevate the players playing the game to greatness.<\/p>\n

Maybe most importantly, he\u2019s been consistent in his messaging every day he\u2019s been in the dugout. The Mets respect that the message doesn\u2019t change; it only adapts based on what the team needs that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat he said at the beginning was that he was going to bring light, bring joy, and he was going to bring accountability,\u201d Lindor said. \u201cHe\u2019s kept up to that, so he made a good impact in the clubhouse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Shortly after Andy Green\u2019s three-year contract with the Mets became official, the news was announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[153545,150,152,151,153546,59223,7677],"class_list":["post-444708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-andy-green","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-mets","tag-mlb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}