Kai Correa

I think this is really a matter of just giving Andy an opportunity to add to his staff and, you know, maybe bring some familiar faces on that can, can serve some roles, uh, for the Mets here.

Uh, it's interesting that, that Kai Correa and Justin Willard and Troy Snitker all around because that's essentially still your hitting coach, your bench coach, and your pitching coach.

So it's not a full-on turnover of the staff.

And I do think that the Mets are trying to lean towards continuity for the most part.

So if you've been on a staff, I will absolutely take your phone call.

Kai Correa, the New York Mets, who's a bench coach there, who a lot of people are raving about.

He's 38 years old.

I will take his phone call.

Christopher Negron, Pirates bench coach.

Kai Correa, Mets bench coach, and then Rocco Baldelli, the Dodgers baseball operations assistant, former Twins manager, all still...

I'd say those last three are probably the o- the ones that feel like they now have the pole position, if that makes sense.

I, I don't know which one would be leading the candidacy.

I, I do think that the, the Mariners will interview and likely give favor to a manager with previous managerial experience, and that looks like Rocco Baldelli at this point.

And if he's the next Mariners manager, again, seems similar enough to the Torey Lovullo conversation that I was kind of propping up in terms of feels like a safer option compared to hiring a bench coach like Negron, who's never managed, albeit, you know, was with the Mariners organization.

Or Kai Correa, who, again, has, you know, several years of experience at this point in professional baseball, just no managerial experience.

But some of the rumblings around make it seem like maybe that won't matter as much, and maybe that's just online perception about the way that this process will go, and people are maybe putting out their hope and their feelers for what they want to happen.

I think I'm going to go a little bit outside the box here.

For the promotion category, I'm going to go with Kai Correa.

Kai Correa, currently the Mets bench coach.

Yeah, he has been around a little bit already.

So, by the way, not a former player.

Forgive me.

I'm looking at a list that has the word Cora on it.

Kai Correa.

Another thing that I'm wondering about is sort of an analytics-based thing, which is that I don't think that every team has equally effective defensive positioning analytics, and I do believe there's still an edge there in terms of those cards that they do or in terms of just the brainpower.

I, I think Kai Correa's a great defensive coach.

I think Ron Washington is a great defensive coach.

So I think that there are certain teams that are better than others in terms of just straight up coaching and analytics on the defensive side, and I would assume that the Yankees are near that, that.