Carlos Mendoza's impactful first season leading the Mets | Baseball Night in NY | SNY

Let's give a little love to the Mets manager. Carlos Mendoza, he has been incredible this year. Craig counsell, who and thank you, special. Thanks to the New York Yankees for letting Mehndi. Go another mistake by them. All great, Tony. All right, what stood out to you here from Mendoza's first year with the meds? Well, I'll tell you what I've always said about managers the X's and O's the on-field stuff should be relatively easy, like we should be able to find 30 guys who do it. Well, I know that doesn't exist, but that should be a thing. And I think Carlos Mendoza has handled that part of it, fine. Fine. He's made some moves you could quibble with because we made some great moves as you could as evidenced by last night's game. I think he has done that great. What really stands out to me is how he has handled the clubhouse and it can be a very difficult thing. Walking in as a rookie manager, someone who's never done this before into a club house, full of veterans with big personalities, whether it's blind or Nimmo, Peter Lanza Etc, and he has had great feel for when to be the authority figure as the manager and when to back off, and let the players lead a little bit. Hasn't been totally in one camp or another. He managed the right spots to kind of go one way or the other. And I think that's that's what has really empowered. These players to take on leadership roles to gel the clubhouse. The way it has over the past couple of months and that's one of the biggest things for the Mets, current Vibe. I think he's been incredible my open and honest up front, holding guys, accountable, not over matches a first-year manager. Clearly you can tell him Stern said this yesterday he should have been hired years ago, the Mets got lucky that he wasn't all right. Danny how much credit does Mendoza get for them? Let's turn around in their season, well, he gets credit and then some he gets extra credit in my opinion, like my troubles go back to the season opener, right? That's series, and he's suspended, that's how they start the year with Carlos Mendoza at the helm, he could have let that Landslide. He could have, let that been the thing that defines him and he didn't. And he took, I think he took hold of this team and told them here's who I am. Here's who I want you to be. I'm going to give you autonomy. I'm gonna be protective of you but I'm also going to hold you accountable. That's exactly what you guys said. That's what I've noticed. When I get Chance to go to the games and go to those press conferences, that is who he is and I think that he is so likable and he's done such a fantastic job. It's not easy. And the Mets have had a couple of tough times. They faced a lot of different adversity this year. He's been the beacon. Like to me. I'm like he's like like he's the beacon, you know, you're like yeah up in the lights? Yeah. Alright. Okay. It sounds like and doesn't hit us know. But I don't judge me that I would say this when you're in that kind of part of the Season where things are struggling or when they're going. Well, he's been consistent, you know, the personality is what you look for in that. He doesn't get, you know, too crazy on either side of any kind of lets the coke, the clubhouse, you know, handle themselves, or the players kind of police themselves. I thought being open and willing to change your mind, to line up a little bit early on. That's never easy, especially with veteran players, but he got the by in very early. When they land or put him in a leadoff spot that to me, change the entire Vibe. You know, he's handled a bullpen as well as he could considering the weapons that he actually had in, have very good Bullpen early on Consequently, you could question some of the moves there, but now that he does have a better Bullpen, a little deeper Bullpen, he's showing urgency, which he showed last night, and he's shown during the stretch. I think he's really been a lot better in his first season done. A lot of first-time managers, I go back with like Willie Randolph when his first year as manager, he had a lot of trouble with some of these things that were talking about tonight. Carlos Mendoza, I think he met you, it was over prepared into this position. I think he's doing it really well, it's exactly right. It's perfectly said. All right. Tony how about man Mendoza has he already proven? And that's turns made the right hire to certain extent. Yeah, I would say so we don't have even a full season body of work. So I won't go too far. But yes, and you mentioned Sal the other day. David Stern saying the Mets, got lucky. And if you'd said that at Carlos, Mendoza is introductory press conference. I probably would have rolled my eyes a little bit, but given what we've seen here over the first 140 games, I think for all the reasons we just discussed, guys, it does feel like they made the right hire for this team. For this time, you can certainly Envision Carlos Mendoza, being here for a long time. And Pat Murphy of the Brewers is going to win manager of the year, like it or not. That award is sort of like who people in the media think was not going to be a great team. Winds up being a good team, the Brewers fit that to a tee, but Carlos Mendoza is going to get a lot of second place votes there. He's almost certainly going to finish in the top third of that award. That's pretty impressive as a rookie manager. I feel like there's a couple managers who Joe Espada you could throw in that in that group is for sure manners. But Carlos Mendoza waited a really long time to have this job, right? He waited his turn and to me what he's done. When you see the clubhouse, that's all you have to know. Know about the job that he's done. You see everybody doing their roles and, and acclimating quickly and bringing guys in and pulling the right strings. Like he pulls the right strings when he has the pieces in place to your point. That's all you need to know about who he is. And if he's not with the Mets long term then we got problems, the difficulties first-year manager in New York the way the season started out for the Mets. Also there's a very fine line between holding players accountable and then commanding the respect and gaining the respect and he's handled it perfectly. I don't care. Who wins the manager of the Year. Carlos Mendoza has been a great manager for the