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According to John Heyman of SI.com, the Mets have agreed to terms with Jerry Manuel.
Manuel will sign a two-year contract with a club option for 2011.
…Update…8:20 am…
The Mets will hold a 1 pm conference call, according to WFAN, to announce Manuel as the 19th manager in team history.
“I am thrilled and appreciative for the opportunity that Ownership and Omar have given me to continue to manage the Mets,” Manuel is quoted as saying in team press release.




Fire Jerry!!!! (though I’d get an early start.)
Haaaa
damn…beat me to it.
First bad move Omars made this offseason. Let’s hope it’s the only.
Why is it a bad move?? Because we didn’t replace him with a completely overrated shlub like Valentine who really never had a chance at the job?
Yup. That’s why. Stupid, stupid, stupid move. Omar does not understand what is needed to remedy this situation. Didn’t last year and doesn’t this year. Cronyism rules the roost.
So Jerry Manuel is the problem??
Oh now I get it!! He was the problem all along!!! Stupid me, I always thought it was our god awful bullpen, and lack of clutch hitting, but nope, it’s Jerry Manuel!
(People need to get off of Bobby V.’s……)
nope, he was just part of the problem. He was part of the Willie regime. The Wilpons think failure is acceptable.
The Mets went 55-38 under Jerry, how is that failure??
People need to get over themselves. Bobby V. isn’t some damn messiah, he’s an overrated manager, and he won’t “save” the Mets.
Failure is not being able to motivate or manage this talented team with their three stars having career years into the playoffs. Every team has injuries. The Wilpons decided to continue the Willie Jerry regime instead of a fresh start. We’ll see how that works out for them, hopefully not more of the same.
Jerry, the guy you decided to spend your day defending, ran Aaron Heilman out over and over again after rosters expanded. That should be case closed. The pen was a disaster, but there was one or two guys worse than the others. You can attribute the wins to Jerry if you like, but I can say this: there is no causal relation that you can point to that says that Willie wouldn’t have had the same results. The team was already starting to play better before they sacked Willie, and it had too much talent not to win between 80-90 games. The most I can say for Jerry is that he showed no creativity when it came to the pen, particularly on the one game that could have gotten the team into a playoff with the Brewers. The fact is Bobby V, no matter what you think of him, took a team lacking talent (check out his starting outfield) to the world series, while Willie/Jerry did precisely the opposite. In my opinion, this team doesn’t need a best buddy or a manager popular with the players and media.
itsmetsforme got it. 55-38 is nothing, it’s the results that matters, and the result was failure. This team never found consistency. The bullpen would stand up and have 20 scoreless, and then blow lead after lead. Manuel failed to learn his players, learn who he could trust, and make the right moves. He seemed to flip a coin or forget about players in both the bullpen, and the bench, and then suddenly find them again. (Ramon Martinez? Sat on the bench for weeks and then all of a sudden played everyday. He fell in love with Argenis who sucks.. We all complained about how he used Kunz.)
I don’t necessarily need Valentine, I just think an outside perspective is what’s needed here. It sometimes feels like there was/is a “anybody but Willie” crowd that fell in love with Manuel for that reason, and are blinded by it.
No one and I mean no one would be able to work with the Mets current bullpen and be able to survive even if the Mets were in the playoffs. Tell me what would of Bobby Valentine would of done differently than Jerry Manuel? He had Tatis out, no Alou, Castillo stinks, A. Reyes, while good defensively, had no bat to speak of.
I mean Jerry Manuel did everything he could do with this ballclub to get them close to the playoff picture and he was one game shy of doing that.
We should have waited until Mike Scoscia is fired next week. After all, his season was a failure, right? And the Angels MUST be smarter than us, and won’t keep a failure around.
I think Jerry deserved the extension. However, it’s all about the players and Omar Minaya must get creative and revamp a key aspect of our ballclub, the bullpen. What makes this task challenging is the fact that virtually every team in the Majors in looking to upgrade their bullpen.
Some names I was thinking about via trade or free agency
K-Rod, J.J. Putz, Chad Cordero (get him while cheap), Brandon Lyon, Brian Fuentes, Fernando Rodney among others. Some names in here appear unlikely, but you never know. How’s Luis Castillo and cash relief to Ariz for RHP Tony Pena? Or maybe Rafael Perez from the Indians…I don’t know, just fix the bullpen. Sign Derek Lowe too, he’s got post-season experience and is a warrior!
Maybe Bobby V. can be his body double. We already know he has gla$$es and a moustache. :-)
Bobby V must’ve been a ploy.
more i think about it, Omar probably couldn’t handle the V.
Big Deal unless Omar makes big moves this team would just let other teams walk all over them agian
I agree with you Metfreak… not just other teams but REALLY BAD teams.
I think Bobby V was the Press speculating.
Manuel makes sense to Mets, and I’m happy it’s a 2 year deal.
Now lets see what he does with his pen for an entire year.
I wonder what coaches won’t return
What’s his name at third has to go.
FIRE WHAT’S HIS NAME!!
He’s the worst!
Luis Aguayo
Duh….we know his name. Well, all of us except maybe the OP.
Yea, I kinda figured that after I posted it. Kinda hard to detect sarcasm on a message board.
Oliver Perez doesn’t know Aguayo? He must… (yes, I’m kidding)
Good got that over with. Next Delgado then the world. HAHAHA.
Victory Stewie!
Beefsteak Manny…Giggidy giggidy.
blast damn you all, victory stewie
Jerry was acting tough not wanting to sing the contract but as soon as bobby V became an option, he got scared and signed it. Tough no more….
I’d pay to watch Jerry sing the contract….what kind of melody goes with employment legalese? Gangsta rap? Old school? Motown?
gotta be gangsta rap. its called “if u sign bobby v, ill cut ya”
lol
*sign the contract
BOBBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boo. I like Jerry but the Wilpons apparently want to keep everything the same.
What would letting Manuel go do?
The problem wasn’t Jerry. The problem was the bullpen.
I agree. I think we have to be careful not to get in the trap of thinking different is better. That’s Howe one makes bad mistakes. ;)
HA! Nice Art Howe reference!
And Manuel got the least out of it he could.