Mark Healey

Yeah, that's what I think.

http://gothambaseballmagazine.com/go...-hire-you.html

What do you guys think?

No.1

If Johnson wanted a MLB job, he would have one by now.

Mark Healey

Not sure if I agree with you.


True, the Dodger firing and his personal life have helped keep him out of circulation, but there's more than one person in baseball that's blackballing this guy.

No.1

I think he's satisfied with his job now as Team USA manager teaching college players rather than going through 162 games

Mark Healey

I'd be inclined to agree if he didn't put his name into the hat for the O's job (that eventually went to Tremblay full-time)

No.1

Here's the problem with that - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...052701179.html

TheeSublimeOne

That was actually a good read, and I did get the "Gee, Davey" reference.

I really hope Bobby Valentine doesn't go to the Yankees - he is my favorite manager and I'd hate to see him get thrown into the mess that is the Yankees right now. He really got the best out of players who loved to play for him, and he means a great deal to Japanese baseball right now (he's a god over there).

If the Mets went ahead and fired Willie, Bobby V would have been my first choice to have him come back and hopefully lead the Mets to a World Series championship.

Kid A

I agree that I hope BV stays out of the Yankees mess, he would be a ticking time bomb there.

I love BV, but would be a skeptic if Randolph were fired and he was a candidate to replace him. Maybe things would be different this time in terms of the talent pool he'd be given and the support of the GM.

Dr Strange

Bobby V. was my choice to replace Art Howe. Now that Ms. Glavine is all but gone, I don't see why BV can't come back when Willie is fired in June. Unless Jaramillo accepts the job.

TheeSublimeOne

Obviously this would be a huge pipe dream (no Grant Roberts jokes), but if we had Bobby V at the helm and his ego got along with Peterson and Jaramillo, we'd have a plethora of talent leading the Mets.

I'd love to see Jaramillo as the Mets hitting coach, as he is supposedly the "Dr. Rick" of batters.

METSSC

are you sure that's a good thing?

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Bay Ridge Dave

lol

TheeSublimeOne

You know what I meant.

Regardless of whether us MOFOites love him or hate him, he is supposedly one of the best. I'll leave it to the experts and the pitchers to decide this one.

Kid A

When Dr Rick has real "talent" to work with, he's been more than good at his job. John Maine, Oliver Perez, Heilman (minus feelings), Feliciano, even Sosa was solid for a good while until the league remembered he was Jorge Freakin Sosa.

He is absolutely not going to make headcases into cool and collected individuals and he is absolutely not going to be able to make El Duque/Wagner/Glavine/Sele/Pedro any younger.

What I would like to see is getting some guaranteed arms in the pen and less "projects".

There are 2 projects that Peterson should be investing most of his time in, the development of Mike Pelfrey and Phil Humber and the continuing development of Maine and Perez.

Rey-YES

Why is he being blackballed?

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