Dan Graziano of the Newark Star-Ledger writes here that sources in the Mets front office are saying the Wilpons will reevaluate the manager's status in June if the team doesn't get their butts in-gear before then. To that I say: better late than never.
The question is, can they be counted-on to make the right hire, when they finally decide to pull the trigger? Their record hasn't been sterling in recent years; hiring Bobby Valentine was a good move, but every other Mets manager since Davey Johnson has been a failure.
The Wilpons usually go out of their way to hire solid citizens, with baseball bona fides seemingly a secondary matter. That's not to say that my first pick—Wally Backman—is anything less than a good person, but he's had to work himself out of a couple of messes, which works against him in getting the Mets job. I hope that's not the case, because this team needs what he can give, big time.
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