Mets' Hot Seat: New Bench Coach Signals the End for Mendoza? | BT & Sal
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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BT and Sal engage in a fiery debate over the New York Mets' recent hiring of a new bench coach, Chi Correa, and what it signals for manager Carlos Mendoza. Sal argues that Correa's hire—a move driven by analytics and the front office—is a direct, ominous message from President of Baseball Operations David Stearns and sets up Correa as a manager-in-waiting if Mendoza stumbles early in the season. BT disagrees with the structure, arguing that forcing a new coach on a manager they've never worked with is setting Mendoza up to fail, but ultimately waves the white flag on the debate over old-school feel versus analytical front-office control in modern baseball. The hosts agree that the move signifies a very short leash for Mendoza following a disappointing prior season and the total overhaul of the rest of the coaching staff.
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| 0:59.3 | I'm kind of with you there because it's so driven by numbers. |
| 1:02.8 | This strikes me different for the Mets here. |
| 1:04.5 | I really believe that this is now Stern's putting his fingerprints more on the franchise |
| 1:10.5 | and this is a direct shot, |
| 1:13.1 | or a direct message to Mendoza. |
| 1:15.7 | If Mendoza stumbles early, Kai Correa will be the manager. |
| 1:19.6 | They have no connection. |
| 1:21.2 | Correa is about 10 years younger, didn't play in the minors, didn't coach together, didn't |
| 1:25.4 | coach together. |
| 1:26.4 | He comes from multiple different organizations. |
| 1:29.5 | And the way the season went down last year for the Mets here, the entire staff has been |
| 1:34.8 | overhauled. |
| 1:35.4 | So the next guy to go, whether it's right or wrong, unfair or not, the next guy to go is |
| 1:39.4 | going to be Mendoza. |
| 1:40.7 | And Stearns now has brought in his guy if the Mets don't play crisply, whether it's April, May, or however, whatever that finish line would be for them to make the determination. |
| 1:51.8 | It's time to make a move. |
| 1:53.1 | Correa would be the new manager. |
| 1:54.5 | But Mendoza is Stern's guy as well. |
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