Keith Hernandez won’t be managing the Mets anytime soon.
The beloved Amazin’ World Series champion said Saturday morning he has no interest in ditching the TV booth, where he’s helped call Mets games on SNY since 2006, for the dugout.
“I will not coach the Mets,” Hernandez said when asked by fans on Twitter what he thought of Mickey Callaway being fired Thursday. “Sorry, I can’t put 12 hours into the ballpark like it’s required today. It’s just absurd.
“No, no. No way.
“They played hard,” the 65-year-old 1986 World Series champion said of the Mets this season.
But a terrible start to the season doomed Hernandez’s former team, and despite a 46-26 run in the second half, the Mets failed to make the postseason under Callaway for the second straight year.
While Hernandez hasn’t been mentioned as a possible candidate to replace Callaway — former Yankee managers Joe Girardi and Buck Showalter are two names to watch — former players-turned-broadcasters have made the jump to the manager seat in recent seasons.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone left ESPN for the Yankees in 2017, and is the only manager in major league history to have 100-plus wins in each of his first two seasons.
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