Your team finished 70-92 (albeit with some extenuating circumstances, i.e. injuries), played absolutely horrendous baseball, and it's day one of the offseason. What do you do to fix it? Why you fire the bench coach and first base coach, of course! Start printing those playoff tickets!
Mets pitchers gave up the 2nd most walks and were 14th in strikeouts in the NL this season, yet Dan Warthen still has a job. Seems to me when your staff excels at the worst thing a pitcher can do and is terrible at the best thing a pitcher can do, an immediate fix is in order. I don't know how much a pitching coach really impacts things, but even a cosmetic change would make fans happy.
Jerry Manuel still has a job, too. He's already stressing that next Spring the Mets need to work on situational hitting. I can only imagine that means more even more sacrifice bunts. Someone shoot me. The Mets were 3rd in the NL in sac bunts and tied for 2nd in sac flies this year. They were 12th in runs scored. I've already given up hope that the Mets will do something smart and re-hire Bobby Valentine or give Wally Backman a job he more than deserves. At this point I'd settle for a manager who realizes that sacrifice bunting is a terrible play.
How are they going to fix things? I'm already dreading their "fixes" because the people who broke it are still in charge.
