3 NY Mets managers whose firings delighted the fans most

Dallas Green 1993-1996

Dallas Green notoriety was for one season as Philadelphia Phillies manager for the 1980 season, when the Phils won the World Series, and then for his role as the GM of the Chicago Cubs and orchestrating deals that brought the Cubs back to respectability as an organization.

His most famous transaction was “stealing” Ryne Sandburg from the Phillies organization after he left, it seemed like Green was the only one who knew how big a star Sandburg would become.

Other than that, Green’s front office and managerial tenures were met with nothing but turmoil and chaos. Heck, he even spent one season as manager of the New York Yankees and it wasn’t even one full season.

After the Mets went on a huge spending spree acquiring high-priced, high-maintenance, problematic players like Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret Saberhagen, etc., and laid-back Jeff Torborg lost control of the clubhouse midway through 1993, the high-energy, in-your-face Green was brought in diffuse the situation, get everyone under control, and right the ship.

It didn’t work. And the Mets were still brutal. It didn’t matter that Green was ranting and raving like an absolute lunatic. The players hated him. The media couldn’t STAND him. And the fans made it clear that he was not exactly THEIR choice.

After ½ of 1993, two full seasons in 1994 and 1995, the Mets finally couldn’t let it go on and finally let Green go midway into 1996 when the hired Bobby Valentine.