It’s hard enough to predict how a manager with big league experience will do in New York leading the Mets. And impossible to know how it will turn out with a man who has never managed a game at any professional level.
Nevertheless, that’s the route the Yankees took after the 2017 season when they hired Aaron Boone, and the Mets are on the same path with Carlos Beltran.
In today’s world the front office is high on the manager communicating with the players and, according to one of Beltran’s former hitting coaches, that is an area he excels in.