{"id":135238,"date":"2020-12-17T02:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/luis-rojas-has-chance-to-show-mets-what-hes-really-made-of\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T02:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:53:30","slug":"luis-rojas-has-chance-to-show-mets-what-hes-really-made-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/luis-rojas-has-chance-to-show-mets-what-hes-really-made-of\/","title":{"rendered":"#Luis Rojas has chance to show Mets what he\u2019s really made of"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e70fa59ef6\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3e70fa59ef6\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/luis-rojas-has-chance-to-show-mets-what-hes-really-made-of\/#More_from\" >More from:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Luis Rojas has chance to show Mets what he\u2019s really made of<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"in-line-column wp-caption alignleft\">\n<div class=\"box module inline columnist desktop\">\n<div class=\"columnist-info\">\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_from\"><\/span>More from:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<picture class=\"columnist-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>There are times it feels like things around the Mets are moving at a thousand miles an hour. The new owner, Steve Cohen, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/19\/steve-cohen-is-swatting-away-mets-rumors-on-twitter\/\">enjoys cracking wise on Twitter, and seemed to have the time of his life greeting season-ticket holders at Citi Field the other day. The old (and new) baseball ops chief, Sandy Alderson, is busily reforming the roster.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new GM in place, and folks all over baseball seem to be falling all over themselves to offer positive endorsements of Jared Porter. Scott Boras is saying hopeful things about the Mets for the first time in years. And there are still a couple of free agents that may have orange-and-blue targets on their back.<\/p>\n<p>Hop on the speeding locomotive, or get out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Almost lost in all of this is the fact the Mets decided to take pause in one awfully important area, chose to give a second chance to Luis Rojas to be their field manager in 2021. This, of course, didn\u2019t have to be a given. A new boss could\u2019ve desired a fancy hire in such a high-profile gig. Cohen himself said on the day he met the public for the first time: \u201cI don\u2019t like people learning on the job on my dime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Mets finished 26-34, tied for last in the NL East with the Nationals in a year when they were expected to sniff the postseason, especially with eight playoff teams in the National League. Underachievement ruled the day.<\/p>\n<p>If Rojas had been fired, or reassigned, it would\u2019ve been hard to argue.<\/p>\n<p>But it is also a signal that two things are absolutely true about Alderson\u2019s grip on the team\u2019s im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te destiny. For one, he clearly has final say on items such as this, because even in Year 2 Rojas will continue to learn on the job, and on Cohen\u2019s dime. But also: Alderson knows Rojas, he helped set him on his precocious path to managing in the big leagues at age 38. And believes Rojas is better than what he showed in his first season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always so much room for growth in this <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, especially first-year managers,\u201d Rojas said Wednesday afternoon in a Zoom call with reporters. \u201cSo many things to learn from, especially in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Luis Rojas Mets\" class=\"wp-image-16841550 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Mets-Luis-Rojas-2021.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Mets-Luis-Rojas-2021.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Mets-Luis-Rojas-2021.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Mets-Luis-Rojas-2021.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Mets-Luis-Rojas-2021.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mets manager Luis Rojas<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As easy-to-justify as a Rojas dismissal would have been, it also would have smacked of unfairness. Nothing about Rojas\u2019 first year in the big chair was normal, an obstacle course that would\u2019ve been just as difficult for a salty vet with 25 years on the job to handle.<\/p>\n<p>He got the job in the first place in the wake of the Carlos Beltran mess, less than a month before the start of spring training. Then the virus hit, shutting camp down in the middle of March, bolting the sport\u2019s doors for 3 \u00bd months. Then came a 60-game sprint of a season, with gaggles of new rules, with the threat of shutdown loitering in every clubhouse and airplane terminal and hotel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year was a challenge,\u201d Rojas said, \u201cbut it has been a challenge for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Were there growing pains? There were. He bears the manager\u2019s usual load of blame for a calamitous bullpen, and for the way he handled his rotation. But if there was one overriding complaint about Rojas in 2020 it was this: he never seemed to click the button into \u201chigh-urgency\u201d mode. The Mets hung around the periphery of the playoffs despite never once putting a winning streak together and it never seemed Rojas understood that the season was leaking away.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing, though:<\/p>\n<p>If we were talking about a normal season, he would have absolutely been right in handling those 60 games as he did. Treating games 51-56 at the end of May like the first hours of October was, in every year played from 1869 until last year, insane. Patience prevails. The outlier season did Rojas no favors \u2014 and, speaking frankly, Rojas did the Mets no favors.<\/p>\n<p>But he was a distinct upgrade over Mickey Callaway, as low a bar as that might have been to clear. His players \u2014 so many of whom worked with him in the minors \u2014 never betrayed him. And urgency might not have mattered all that much when he had to send Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha to the mound two days out of every five, when Pete Alonso suffered through an all-out sophomore jinx, when there was so little clutch hitting by anyone.<\/p>\n<p>So he gets \u2014 with luck \u2014 a full 162 now. He looks hopefully to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, to the projected availability of vaccines. He yearns for a chance to see how he does in the midst of normalcy, and that is good, because he also now lives by a credo that most Mets employees would be wise to adopt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m highly motivated,\u201d he said, \u201cby the words of Mr. Cohen.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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