While the transition on the New York Mets’ active roster may take some time, the coaching staff has already begun preparing for next season.
The Mets had a brutally dismal season, starting 45-24 before falling to 83-79 and missing the playoffs by one game. That makes it a brutally depressing finish for anyone leaving the company, but one coach believed the time had come.
According to Mike Puma of the New York Post, Glenn Sherlock, the Mets’ catching coach for seven seasons, has opted to retire at the end of this season. He is 65.
“I have been so fortunate to work with so many great people along the way,” Sherlock said in a text message to Puma earlier this week.
Sherlock spent two stints with the Mets. From 2017 to 2019, he was a first- and third-base coach, before joining the Pittsburgh Pirates and serving in different roles for the following three years until returning to the Mets as bench coach in 2022. He became the catching teacher in 2023.
Sherlock spent 19 seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks before joining the Mets. Buck Showalter, the team’s first manager, hired him in 1998. Showalter was also the one who rehired him for the Mets in 2022.
Sherlock was also the Yankees’ first minor-league manager under Hall of Fame closer Mariano Rivera.
After being chosen as a catcher out of Rollins College in 1983, the Massachusetts native spent seven seasons in the minor levels with the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees.
Other Mets coaches’ jobs might be in jeopardy this winter, most notably hitting coach Eric Chavez, although Sherlock was the first to publicly go following a difficult season.