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According to Peter Abraham, at his blog for the Journal News, Joe Torre is ‘likely’ to bring Larry Bowa, Don Mattingly and Lee Mazzilli on to his coaching staff with the Dodgers.
…i will hate to see lee go, if it happens…it was a rough start for mazz on sny, but he really grew in to the role and i found myself eager to get his opinion after every game, which was always equal-parts passion, honesty and intellect, and his rapport with Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling was always entertaining, as well…nevertheless, he’s a baseball guy, and i’m certain he’s eager to get back in the dugout, and so if he does end up leaving for los angeles, i wish him the best of luck…
omar shoulda canned willie and hired maz as the manager. another missed opportunity.
I always thought maz would be a good manager for the mets….Now the yankees have a manager with heart and fire in Girardi. In comparision, willie’s laid back style and lack of leadership will be glaring…..Omar blew it not firing willie…Let’s face it Omar kept willie so willie will be the first person to blame and fire if the mets get off to a slow start in ‘08…..
Yeah, ’cause he did such a stellar job in Baltimore.
wow nice group he’s assembling, geez don’t get me excited I might want to switch allegiance.
Coaches are wonderful, but it is still the players that win and lose games. Mazz seems like a nice guy (as does Torre), but he isn’t going to make a scrub play any better, or a weak team win any more games.
I agree..but thing is, LA is a good team. They’re on the verge of being a VERY good team. The right coaching staff and one or two key players and they’re trouble for the NL
That said, I don’t know that THIS is the right coaching staff but it’s probably a good start for the Dodgers
Agreed that Maz was pretty darn good with SNY - of course I’m biased; I’ve been a fan of the guy since ‘77 when he was all we had to root for, just about. Our counter-weight to all those “Bucky” fans that could make you gag.
I for one wish Maz well wherever he goes!
Mazzilli as a manager was really bad
Girardi as a manager was a sub .500 manager
Willie has inmporved this team every year (with the exception of the last month of 2007). He brought them to game 7 of the 2006 NLCS. The playoffs that is….. a place that Girardi and Mazzilli have never seen as a manager. It amazes me that so-called mets fan are so eager to chase Willie out of town. You people really are becoming just like Yankees fans, good job!!!!!!
Styles varry but whatever gets the job done is fine by me, as managers mazzilli did not get the job done and even though girardi won the MoTY, his team still couldnt win more than they lost.
Girardi coached a bunch of first year players and castoffs and kept them in a playoff hunt until September.
I’m no Yankee booster by any stretch of the imagination, but saying Girardi was a “sub-.500 manager” ignores the fact that he was the manager of the year for 2006. He really did a hell of a job that year.
Sorry but willie sucks as a manager. I don’t care what he did in 2006 the 2007 collapse was shameful! He displayed absolutely no leadership skills during the last two horrid weeks of the season….sorry but no way you can be the manager of a team that goes through an embarassing collapse like that and not be blamed…….I can’t believe that omar and the wilpons didn’t cut willie loose….Most teams would have immediately fired their manager after that disgraceful collapse….
florida was full of a bunch of rookies and the o’s were just awful, willie had some of the most talent in the NL in 05 and got them nowhere, had the best talent in the nl in 06 and only got them to the nlcs and had probably the most talent again in 07 and failed to do anything, just collapse.
I think the more important reunion is Joe Torre and Scott Proctor.
89 games with 110 innings in one season, YES!
Love the picture of young Maz. Brings back memories of his “should have been All Star Game MVP” performance in the All Star Game in Seattle in ‘79. Pinch hit homer–game winning walk. One of the sports highlights of my youth.
Maybe the Mets will consider adding Mike Piazza to the SNY team assuming he retires. He’d be a much better analyst than Mazzilli, who was tough to watch at best.
how bout Maz as a 1B coach for the Mets?
Maz probably never wanted to leave the coaching ranks in the first place. But he jumped ship on the Yankees and the blackballed him as far as ever returning to that organization. They could have brought him back so many times but they went with other guys, probably George’s orders…