NEW YORK — Rookie supervisor Carlos Mendoza is about to have heaps of expertise alongside him within the Mets dugout. The staff plans to rent longtime supervisor John Gibbons to function Mendoza’s bench coach, a supply stated Wednesday. The membership has not confirmed the hiring as a result of it’s not but official.
Gibbons brings 13 seasons of managerial expertise with him to New York, the place he started his greater than four-decade skilled profession in 1980 as a first-round Draft choose of the Mets — the membership’s third choice after fellow first-rounders Darryl Strawberry and Billy Beane. Though Gibbons performed simply 18 video games over components of two seasons in Queens, he remained within the group for eight years and returned to turn out to be a Minor League supervisor in 1995.
That sparked a profession that noticed Gibbons function an enormous league supervisor in Toronto from 2004-08 and 2013-18. Between, he hung out within the Royals and Padres organizations.
Throughout his second stint in Toronto, Gibbons led the Blue Jays to the American League Championship Sequence in 2015 and ’16 — their first postseason appearances since profitable back-to-back World Sequence titles from 1992-93.
Gibbons parted methods with the Jays after the 2018 season, having compiled a 793-789 file.
Now reunited together with his first group, Gibbons would be the most outstanding member of a remade teaching employees. The Mets additionally plan to rent Antoan Richardson as first-base coach and Mike Sarbaugh at third base, in keeping with a number of sources. Richardson, 40, is a local Bahamian who spent 2020-23 because the first-base coach in San Francisco. Sarbaugh, 56, has spent almost his total skilled profession within the Guardians group, the place he overlapped considerably with Francisco Lindor. He’ll now shift to New York to affix Mendoza’s employees.
Elsewhere within the dugout, a number of Mets coaches are set to return, in keeping with sources. Topping the checklist is pitching coach Jeremy Hefner, who has two years remaining on his contract. Former bench coach Eric Chavez may also shift to his outdated position within the batting cage, serving as co-hitting coach alongside incumbent Jeremy Barnes.