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Johnson will remain Mets' manager in '90
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Davey Johnson kept his job after all when the New York Mets announced yesterday that he would return for a seventh season as manager.
The announcement came two days after sources reported that the Mets had decided to fire Johnson and three days after the manager himself said that he was convinced he would be fired.
In a statement released in New York and at the National League playoffs in Chicago, the Mets said; "In an effort to dispel rumors and responses to the contrary, general manager Frank Cashen of the New York Mets today announced that the club plans to have Davey Johnson return to manage the team next season. Johnson has a three-year contract with the Mets which runs through 1991."
Cashen had said Tuesday that a decision on Johnson's fate had been made but would not be final until he could talk to the manager, who was fishing in Florida.
"We never had any intentions of firing Davey," Cashen said yesterday through Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz.
Joe McIvaine, the Mets' vice president for baseball operations, confirmed that the front office had been
divided, but he said the final decision was Cashen's, "and we all stand by it."
McIvaine would not say if he agreed with the decision.
"There's always going to be disagreement in the room," he said. "You're not going to get 100 percent agreement all the time. We sit down and discuss it, but that's not unusual. We have these disagreements on trades all the time."
Johnson, who signed a three-year contract after last season, has led the Mets to two division titles and four second-place finishes in six years. The team is 575-395 under him.
McIlvaine said Cashen decided to keep Johnson yesterday, a day after talking with him.
Al Harazin, the Mets' senior vice president, met with owners Nelson Doubleday and Fred Wilson on Monday after receiving input from Meillaine. The next day, the Mets announced as expected that they would not re-sign co-captains Gary Carter and Keith Hernandez but left Johnson's status hanging.
Both managers in the NL playoff said they were happy for Johnson.
Said Roger Craig of the Giants:
"They made a very wise decision.
He's an excellent manager, but he's in a tough situation in New York. I don't think there was anybody better available."
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