Daily News | Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson has a fan in Mets manager Buck Showalter
Buck Showalter first met Rob Thomson in 1989 while he was managing the double-A Albany-Colonie Yankees in the Eastern League. Thomson was coaching the London Tigers, an affiliate of the Detroit Tigers based in Ontario, Canada. He’d recently finished his playing career, and was only in his second year as a minor league coach, but he caught Showalter’s eye.“I was really impressed with him,” Showalter said on Friday. “And we got a chance to add him.
“He’s just solid,” Showalter said of Thomson. “He has no ego. Well, we all have an ego, but it’s always about the players for him. A lot of people they say ‘Oh, he’s really organized,’ which he is, but he’s got great people skills, too. I think the mistake that a lot of coaches and managers make is they forget how hard the game was to play and how bad they were on a given night. But Robbie doesn’t forget that.
Unfortunately for Showalter, the Phillies did go with Thomson, which means that they’ll be in opposing dugouts in Citi Field when the Mets and Phllies next play Aug. 12-14.
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