With the Mets persevering with to sink deeper and deeper towards the underside of the standings, the followers are clamoring increasingly for motion. Whether it’s firing supervisor Buck Showalter or pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, and even slicing ties with struggling slugger Daniel Vogelbach, followers are begging the Mets to do one thing to shake issues up. Some followers are sometimes begging proprietor Steve Cohen immediately by way of social media.
So, Cohen has determined it’s time to speak. The hedge fund supervisor despatched a tweet to his 286,043 followers Tuesday afternoon saying that he can be assembly with the media earlier than Wednesday’s sport towards the Milwaukee Brewers.
“I will be doing a press conference tomorrow before the game,” the tweet stated. “You will get it from me straight.”
Owners usually don’t discuss a lot in the course of the season, preferring to let their operations executives who run the workforce day-to-day do the talking. But Eppler has solely met with reporters 4 thrice this season, with the third time coming Tuesday afternoon. The topic of Cohen’s press convention is unknown, however with Eppler giving a vote of confidence to Showalter and the remainder of the on-field teaching employees, it doesn’t look like Cohen goes to return in and throw any sudden curveballs.
“I know he wanted to connect with you guys midyear,” Eppler stated Tuesday earlier than the Mets performed the second sport of a four-game set towards the Milwaukee Brewers at Citi Field. “I think he said that in spring training, I’ll talk to you guys midyear. So he’s going to talk to you midyear.”
Showalter and Eppler have been requested about their relationship with Cohen, however each have declined to enter specifics, citing privateness.
“He’s very involved in the things and when he’s needed, he’s always there,” Showalter stated.
However, each have additionally praised his dealing with of the workforce, particularly throughout attempting occasions.
“A lot of that I want to just kind of keep between Steve and I, so I’ll kind of speak more in generalities,” Eppler stated. “The questions that he’ll ask about is how do we get a player from this point to that point and how will we know it’s working? And if that doesn’t work, what are we going to try after that? So it’s generally those questions.”
Cohen’s press convention will almost certainly simply be some kind of state-of-the-team deal with. He has backed off of his Twitter tirades during the last two years, preferring to speak on to particular reporters when he has a remark or a contract as an alternative. Cohen largely solely tweets about wins today, although the Mets aren’t doing an excessive amount of profitable proper now.
Of course, that is the Mets and it is a mercurial billionaire, so that might at all times change. But no less than publicly, Cohen continues to be supportive of the job Eppler and Showalter are doing.
“He and I are sharing a lot of the same feelings of disappointment, amongst other things,” Eppler stated. “We want to do whatever we can to help and support the players, the coaching staff and just get them in a position where they kind of feel the freedom to play and have our players be in a position where they’re just playing loose and they’re playing free, and playing hard and playing tough, not thinking about all of the other factors.”
U-S-A! U-S-A!
Former Mets third baseman Eduardo Escobar grew to become an American citizen Tuesday after passing his naturalization check. Escobar, a Venezuela native who was traded to the Los Angeles Angels over the weekend, was receiving assist from his Mets teammates to arrange for the check. Part of that assist included some good-natured ribbing, however Escobar gave it proper again to his teammates.
When quizzed concerning the presidents, he cited a former MLB supervisor with the identical final identify because the nation’s first President.
“They were kidding him thinking he was going to mispronounce something, asked him who the first president of the United States was,” Showalter stated. “And Escy had that devilish look on his face. He said, ‘Ron Washington.’ Beautiful, ain’t it?”
ROSTER MOVE
The Mets recalled David Peterson from Triple-A Syracuse to start out Tuesday’s sport towards Milwaukee and optioned right-hander Vinny Nittoli in a corresponding transfer. With Drew Smith again, the Mets needed to half with a reliever.
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