According to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com, the Mets have hired Dave Jauss to be Jerry Manuel’s new bench coach.
Jauss also worked as a bench coach for the Red Sox, Dodgers and Orioles.
Rosenthal says the Mets chose Jauss over Eric Wedge and Bob Melvin.
Jauss traveled to New York in late October to meet the Mets.
In the late 80s, while he was Field Coordinator of the Expos, Jerry Manuel hired Jauss to manage in Montreal’s minor-league system, where he was eventually named the Eastern League Manager of the Year in 1994.
Jauss has also spent time working for the Dodgers, Red Sox and Orioles, ranging in positions from first-base coach to bench coach to minor-league field coordinator.
In early October, Manuel told WFAN the Mets will first look internally for a third-base coach, and will consider Razor Shines and Sandy Alomar Jr. among candidates for the bench coach position.
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anyone know much about this guy?
i know one thing… hes better than razor shines……..
Sry. Can’t help. Never heard of this guy in my life!
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Hey, sorry I forgot to post last night. I just wrotet the comment now!
never heard of him, but he is an old Omar cronie, for whatever that is worth.
cant say I expected that considering the choices.
lmao! lets hope so. I’ve never heard of him.
yeah i hope so too….
wait… is he able to use half of his brain?
yes?
okay good, yeah hes better than razor
In 1988 when Dan Duquette became the Montreal Expos director of player development, Jauss was hired by field coordinator Jerry Manuel as a Manager for the Expos Minor league baseball system. Between 1988 and 1994, Jauss managed the Gulf Coast Expos, West Palm Beach Expos, and Harrisburg Senators. He compiled a record of 188–151 in that role and was named the Eastern League Manager of the Year in 1994. He also managed winter baseball in the Dominican Republic and led Licey to the Caribbean Series title in 1999. That winter, Jauss was named Manager of the Year.
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In 1997, he was named the Boston Red Sox’s first base coach, a position he held between 1997 and 1999. It was there that he met Grady Little who was serving as the teams bench coach at the time. He served as the Red Sox minor league field coordinator from 2000–01. In 2001, Jauss became the Red Sox bench coach, then in 2002 he was their director of player development and from 2003–05 he was the Sox Major League Advance Scout.
In 2006 he was named bench coach of the Dodgers under manager Grady Little, a position he held through 2007. In the 2008-2009 seasons, he was the bench coach for the Baltimore Orioles. Jauss left as the Orioles bench coach after the 2009 season
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Well, atleast it sounds like the guy has a clue!
good sounds like hes not completely incompetent.
As Ken Rosenthal said, Jauss won’t be looked at as a manager in waiting.
the excitment of this rebuilding is intense!
Every open position needs to be filled. Even the boring ones. Patience, grasshopper.
Wow! Omar did something!
Yeah, he’s really been slow out of the gate. I mean, look at all the fevered activity all the other GMs are doing right now.
I’m not a fan of Omar, but let’s at least be fair in our criticisms of him. Some of the stuff he gets blamed for is more a product of either “the business of baseball” or the way in which the Wilpons are running the franchise. Even if Omar gets fired next year, I really don’t expect any dramatic change in the way the Mets operate. As long as the Wilpons own the Mets, things are pretty much going to stay the same.
I think that a bench coach who isn’t considered a managerial candidate, at least by the fans, might be perceived as a vote of confidence for Jerry. At least that’s my take.
Tuefel and Backman managing a short drive away, well that is a horse of a different color.
I think it’s just the less obvious choice. It’s the bench coach, but they took a long time to decide, sorta like they would a manager. Hopefully, he’s running the team by May.
Of course, with Manuel still blackmailing the Mets, who knows.
I think the whole notion of one’s replacement sitting by your side as a vote of anything is a little overblown. It’s not like a manager who’s really struggling through a season is going to say, “hey I’m safe, cuz who else is gonna manage this team?” I think it’s all a bit of hype.
That being said, of course, if the players and GM start looking to the bench coach for direction rather than the manager, then there’s a problem, but that’s true whether Jauss or Melvin is that guy.
I prefer to stop reading into ever move for the second and third and fourth dimension of its meaning and I just assumed the guy was hired because he was thought by the FO to be the best guy at a reasonable price.
And then I assume, because this is the Mets FO, that they got it wrong again.
Well we have a bench coach, next a left felder
His experience is sitting alongside Jerry Manuel and Grady Little?
Makes me shudder.
yeah really…
They had a chance to bring in a fresh voice and went back to the same Montreal Expos tree…
Seems like Jeff Wilpon forced the FO to look outside of Manuel’s buddies already on the staff for some candidates, but in the end they let Jerry Manuel find a different old friend to be a part of the staff.
So basically all they did right was move Shines off of the 3rd base coach spot, which will help, but they really did need to bring in someone with new ideas. Hopefully Jauss will be the right mix of new ideas and someone Manuel will listen too.
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