After a shaky start, the coach has managed to stabilize the New York team.. Like a lot of New York Mets this season, Carlos Mendoza got off to a terrible start. During his first eight days as a major league manager,

Carlos Mendoza was connecting dots. He stood with a fungo bat in his hands in a narrow corridor inside Clover Park with a lifetime record as a major league manager of 0-0. He was replacing a manager (Buck Showalter) who’d worked 3,418 games. He was the Mets’ preferred candidate over another manager (Craig Counsell) who’d managed 1,513 of them.