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Mets need to hire veteran manager to steady the ship

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What do you do in a workplace crisis?

You stabilize the situation. You calm folks down.

You bring in an old hand.

The Mets took their shot at creativity and bungled it. Now comes the need for constancy.

Dusty Baker, John Gibbons, Buck Showalter and Ron Washington. Each man in that group has managed in multiple postseasons. Each has dealt with adversity, sometimes of his own making, and survived it. Each has made thousands of decisions on the fly.

One of that quartet should manage the 2020 Mets in the wake of Carlos Beltran’s stunning dismissal on Thursday.