Craig Counsell is one of the longest-tenured managers in MLB at the moment, having led the Milwaukee Brewers since 2015.
Through the years, he has achieved a lot, often with very low payrolls.
When it comes to getting the best out of his players, Counsell is one of the league’s masters.
He has a solid 707-625 record with a .531 winning percentage, and has made the postseason in five of the last six years.
He has three NL Central crowns and made the NL Championship Series in 2018.
The New York Mets are now led by David Stearns, who was Counsell’s president of baseball operations when he was in Milwaukee.
Naturally, when faced with his first major decision as the Mets’ top baseball guy, Stearns will look at the candidates he trusts the most and Counsell is at the top of that list.
The Mets have been granted permission to interview Counsell, and will likely offer him a nice raise compared to his Brewers salary.
It will be up to the Brewers to match that or at least increase his salary to try and get him to stay.
“Now that the Mets will officially interview free agent manager Craig Counsell, the Brewers will likely need to bump up his salary to at least $5 million from $3.5 million to retain the Wisconsin native. He deserves to be paid as one of the highest-paid managers in the game,” MLB insider Bob Nightengale tweeted.
Now that the Mets will officially interview free agent manager Craig Counsell, the Brewers will likely need to bump up his salary to at least $5 million from $3.5 million to retain the Wisconsin native. He deserves to be paid as one of the highest-paid managers in the game
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) October 25, 2023
The fact he is a Wisconsin native could work in the Brewers’ favor, but everybody, or the vast majority of people, enters a specific profession to try and earn as much as possible to take care of their families.
It’s likely that the Mets won’t be outbid, and if Counsell stays in Milwaukee it will be because of reasons that don’t have anything to do with money.
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