{"id":461356,"date":"2023-10-01T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=461356"},"modified":"2023-10-01T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T18:58:52","slug":"mets-fire-buck-showalter-as-their-manager","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mets-fire-buck-showalter-as-their-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets fire Buck Showalter as their manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buck Showalter has been axed by the New York Mets as their manager following a highly disappointing campaign, which saw the highest-spending team crumble out of any sort of contention from midsummer onwards.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Buck Showalter announced he will not return as Mets manager. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tjucewBdi6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tjucewBdi6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1708542502201176382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nShowalter admitted before Sunday&#8217;s game against Philadelphia he will be stepping down from the job, but the team have taken matters into its own hands and have decided to give him the sack instead.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand Mets are currently a mammoth-like 29 1\/2 games behind NL East champion Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>New York is expected to hire David Stearns as president of baseball operations above general manager Billy Eppler, and Showalter\u2019s departure clears the way for Stearns to pick the next manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are heading in a new direction, with a new president of baseball operations and we let Buck know we\u2019ll be parting ways. We will begin the search for a new manager immediately,\u201d Mets owner Steve Cohen said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buck Showalter has been axed by the New York Mets as their manager following a highly disappointing campaign, which saw the highest-spending team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":461357,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17653],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[21604,18542],"acf":{"announce":"The 67-year-old was given his marching orders by the New York team","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461358,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/461356\/revisions\/461358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461356"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=461356"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=461356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}