Former Orioles manager Buck Showalter is heading back into a big league dugout after a three year absence. Following two rounds of interviews with the New York Mets over the last couple of weeks, Showalter was announced as the new Mets manager in a tweet by terminally online Mets owner Steven Cohen.
This was not a surprising ending to the Mets managerial search. Showalter’s name has come up in conjunction with other job openings in the last couple of offseasons and he was known as a Mets candidate for a while. Rumors passed along through the media throughout the process suggested that Showalter was the preferred choice of newly-signed Mets ace and possibly even Cohen himself.