Modifications to the Mets teaching workers are coming, with the retirement of catching coordinator Glenn Sherlock. A longtime coach for the Yankees, Diamondbacks, Pirates and Mets, Sherlock has been a highly-regarded catching coach for the reason that Nineties.
Sherlock first got here to the Mets forward of the 2017 season to work with Travis d’Arnaud. On the time, d’Arnaud had a very good bat and was a wonderful framer, however there have been defensive deficiencies the Mets wished the backstop to enhance, particularly his pop occasions, throwing accuracy and handed balls. Tomas Nido additionally benefited from Sherlock’s teaching, taking up because the No. 1 backstop when d’Arnaud was minimize in 2019.
Sherlock went to Pittsburgh through the COVID-shortened 2020 season, returning to the Mets in 2022 when Buck Showalter was employed because the supervisor. The 2 each labored within the Yankees group collectively, and Showalter introduced him to Arizona when he was supplied the job because the Diamondbacks’ first-ever supervisor. Sherlock began as a minor league teacher and was finally moved as much as the large league workers, spending 19 years with the group.
In 2022, he returned to the Mets as Showalter’s bench coach, however with the emergence of high prospect Francisco Alvarez, Sherlock returned to the catching coach position. The crew introduced the choice as one made by Sherlock to accommodate different members of the teaching workers.
Hitting coach Eric Chavez changed him on the bench, later returning again to his co-hitting coach position with Jeremy Barnes.
Now that Alvarez has a couple of years of massive league play underneath his belt and the Mets don’t have one other high catching prospect near being prepared for the key leagues, it presents a pure time for change. Different personnel strikes might be made after the entrance workplace conducts its end-of-season analysis.
