Fredi Gonzalez: Where Does He Rank Among NL East Managers?

Oct 30, 2015; New York City, NY, USA; New York Mets manager Terry Collins before game three of the World Series against the Kansas City Royals at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

2. Terry Collins (Mets): Collins finally burst through his 4 year string of winning a between 70 and 79 games on the heels of some absolutely spectacular pitching. Collins only earns the 2nd spot here because he was able to rally his team to a World Series birth.

Collins relationship with the Mets fanbase is wishy-washy at best. He’s made several bullpen blunders and at times has struggled to place the best players on the field. But this is a new dawn for the Mets, their years of scraping the bottom are finally at an end due in large part to their farm system panning out for them. It’s not fair to put all the weight of the Mets recent failures on the shoulders of Collins, as he’s had to make due with a slew of mediocre players and has finally been able to develop young talent that are sure to keep them at the top of the NL East for some time.

The key here is now duplication. The Mets teetered for 4 years at almost getting to a winning record, and now it will be on the skipper to keep the team on a good path above .500 . That will surely be somewhat of a tough task with Daniel Murphy surely departing and Yoenis Cespedes’s status uncertain.

The Mets pitching will be far from lacking, and they can also look to invest more into it on the backside. There’s a rule somewhere that if you are having to depend on Tyler Clippard for anything, you’re going to have a bad time. But Collins has some momentum, and it will be up to him to keep the clubhouse and the fan base on his side, despite just recently losing out on a bid for a world title in 5 games of the World Series.

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