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By Brian Joura

Buck Showalter won Manager of the Year in 2022 and big things were expected of him in 2023. We all know the Mets didn’t have a good season this year. The question now is: How much blame should Showalter get for the team’s poor results? Our pal Texas Gus recently posted that he didn’t think Showalter had a good year and it seems few would counter that he did. With the Mets at an organizational crossroad, will Showalter pay the price – deserved or not – for how 2022 played out?

Regardless of how you feel about Showalter and his role in the 2023 debacle, the biggest thing making this such a prominent issue is that the Mets have a new GM President of Baseball Operations coming in with David Stearns. And usually sooner rather than later, the new GM PoBO wants to pick his own guy as manager.

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