Buck Showalter will not be back as Mets manager, as he told reporters before Sunday’s season finale that new president of baseball operations David Stearns is electing to bring in his own manager.
Gio is fine with the decision, but ripped the way the Mets handled it on the last day of Showalter’s managerial tenure.
“The way they handled that was atrocious for a guy as respected as him. Pathetic,” Gio said. “Listen, I understand, fine. But to have David Stearns make the call, he’s not even here, hasn’t even been introduced, and hasn’t even spoken to him. Then they trot him out to announce his own firing? What?
“It’s amazing how the Mets just can’t get out of their own way with these PR things. It’s so stupid.”
Stearns was introduced as president of baseball ops 24 hours later, and Gio says the way he handled Showalter’s exit got him off to a bad start in Queens.
“I wouldn’t have cared if they moved on from him the right way,” Gio said. “But for a guy that’s been around that much and respected in that way, for David Stearns from 30,000 feet up in the air, to chop this guy’s head off and then make him serve it to the media, it’s ridiculous.”