Mets Hire Luis Rojas as Manager

Mets Manager Luis Rojas (Credits to NYDailyNews.com)

The New York Mets announced today they have hired Luis Rojas as their next manager after they let their previous manager Carlos Beltran go for his role in the Houston Astros sign stealing scandal. They are working on finalizing a multi-year deal with him. Rojas has been in the Met organization since 2007 and has previously managed the Dominican Summer League Mets in 2007 and Gulf Coast Mets in 2008. He later coached the Savannah Sand Gnats in 2010.  Rojas managed the Gulf Coast League Mets in 2011 as well as the manager for Savannah in 2012-2014. He also managed the High A St. Lucie Mets in 2015 and 2016 and Binghamton Mets in 2017 and 2018.   In the 2017-2018 season, he managed the Double A Binghamton Mets and lead them to a playoff berth in 2017. Rojas was promoted to the Major League coaching staff in 2019 as outfield coach and also served a quality control coach whose job was to work with the analytics staff and coaching staff and help the coaches and players take all the information they have and help the hitters improve. He comes from a well-known baseball family and is the son of former player and manager Felipe Alou, nephew of Matty and Jesus Alou and brother of former Met outfielder Moises Alou. Rojas has managed and is familiar with several of the younger players on the Met roster including Pete Alonso, Jeff McNeil, Dom Smith, Michael Conforto, Brandon Nimmo, and Amed Rosario which should come in handy during the course of the season.

Mets Announce Today That They have Mutually Parted Ways With Carlos Beltran

The New York Mets announced today that they have mutually agreed parted ways with manager Carlos Beltran. Beltran was involved in a cheating scandal involving stealing signs using technology when he played for the Houston Astros in 2017. He was the only player on that Astros team mentioned in MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's report as part of a group of players who discussed to improve the team's system of decoding signs and communicating them to the batter according to Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic. It will be interesting to see where the Mets go from here and who their next manager will be.