NEW YORK -- For the fifth time in six years, the Mets are in the market for a new manager.
Buck Showalter was fired Sunday after a disappointing season in which baseball's highest-spending team tumbled from contention by midsummer.
The 67-year-old Showalter said before Sunday's game against Philadelphia that he will not return next year, and a few minutes later the fourth-place Mets said the team had decided on the change. New York entered 74-86 and 29½ games behind NL East champion Atlanta.
"I was honored to get a chance to manage a second New York team.