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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — The batting cage at Clover Park on Tuesday was a hub of exercise. Carlos Mendoza stood round it at one level, greeting all his outdated Yankees pals. Mendoza had spent 15 years in that group earlier than becoming a member of the Mets this offseason as their supervisor. His ties to the Bronx run deep.
But it surely wasn’t simply Mendoza. Former Mets supervisor Luis Rojas was additionally current in his function as Yankees third-base coach. New heart fielder Harrison Bader hung out catching up with ex-teammates and coaches on the opposite facet. Former Mets basic supervisor Omar Minaya made the rounds as effectively, chatting up of us in his job as a Yankees senior baseball operations advisor. He was trailed by one other former supervisor, Terry Collins, who lives in Port St. Lucie and got here to observe the sport. Even ex-Mets hitting coach Pat Roessler, now an assistant with the Yankees, was there.
Handshakes and hugs proliferated. This was nonetheless an interborough rivalry, with 7,626 followers exhibiting up for it — the biggest crowd at Clover Park since 2016, the 12 months after the Mets received the Nationwide League pennant. But it surely was additionally Spring Coaching, a comparatively informal time of 12 months. Mendoza and pals have been comfortable to reconnect.
“I didn’t know what to anticipate and what the sensation was going to be like,” Mendoza stated. “When you’ve spent your entire profession with one group, [there are] plenty of relationships, acquainted faces, plenty of guys I’ve plenty of respect for. It was a great day.”
For the ultimate 5 years of his tenure with the Yankees, Mendoza served as Aaron Boone’s bench coach — an expertise that provided him the final bits of expertise he would wish to change into a supervisor himself. Every now and then, Mendoza even stuffed in to guide the Yankees, comparable to when Boone took a depart of absence to deal with a coronary heart situation in 2021.
When the Mets requested Mendoza to interview for their very own managerial emptiness in November, Boone grew to become a continuing supply of recommendation. The 2 spoke typically as alternatives arose in Queens and elsewhere. Whereas Boone declined to get into specifics, he provided Mendoza what steerage he may on the job — each managing on the whole and managing in New York.
“He’s completely outfitted to do all of this,” was Boone’s evaluation.
Halfway via his first Spring Coaching, Mendoza has actually regarded the half, seeming comfy with gamers, with coaches, with the media. Earlier than greeting his outdated boss and others across the batting cage Tuesday, Mendoza hung out hitting fly balls to his outfielders because the Mets took full infield and outfield observe — a degree of delight for the basically pushed Mendoza. In non-public conversations, Mendoza’s former colleagues provided nothing however reward for him.
“Sounds prefer it’s going effectively,” Boone stated. “Clearly, he solid deep relationships in our group.”
“Many instances you don’t notice these relationships, they actually do final endlessly,” added Bader.
Requested earlier than the sport about his outdated membership, Mendoza stated all the best issues, noting how a lot he desires to beat the Yankees now that he’s on the opposite facet. Though Mendoza left his former franchise on in regards to the friendliest phrases attainable, it’s his job to topple no matter group occurs to be in his path. He takes that cost significantly, even throughout Spring Coaching. The times of George Steinbrenner shedding his cool due to a string of Spring Coaching losses could also be over, however this interborough rivalry will at all times exist.
Mendoza is part of that now in methods he beforehand was not. His first style got here Tuesday, and it proved to be a hit: a 5-4 win for the Mets.
“There’s competitors — particularly the Mets and the Yankees,” Mendoza stated. “Though it’s a Spring Coaching sport, and we’re not going to make an excessive amount of out of a Spring Coaching sport, as soon as the sport begins, it’s about beating them. That’s the mentality right here.”
“I don’t know the way they view the Mets,” he added with a smile. “I understand how I view the Yankees. I need to beat them.”