After weeks of speculation, the New York Mets finally decided on their new skipper for the 2022 season: it will be veteran Buck Showalter, who has been leading MLB teams since 1992 and was out of baseball’s dugouts since 2018.
Showalter’s last stint as a major league skipper was with the Baltimore Orioles, from 2012 to 2018. There, he managed one of the league’s best relievers of the mid-2010s, one who currently plays with the New York Yankees: Zack Britton.
In the 2016 American League Wild Card game between the Orioles and the Toronto Blue Jays, Showalter did not use Britton, MLB’s most dominant relief arm back then, in a close game that ended up going to extras.