CLEVELAND -- Filling the pitching-coach role vacated by Mickey Callaway's move to New York as the Mets' new manager will not be an easy task for the Indians. Over the past five years, Callaway became a master communicator in the clubhouse, an expert at collaborating with the front office and the leader of one of baseball's best pitching staffs.
"We knew Mickey had aspirations to be a Major League manager and he certainly worked to earn that opportunity," Chris Antonetti, the Indians' president of baseball operations, said on Monday night. "So, we couldn't be happier for him.