Former Met Edgardo Alfonzo to Manage Staten Island Indy Ball Team
Former New York Mets second baseman Edgardo Alfonzo has resurfaced as the new manager of the Staten Island FerryHawks of the Independent Atlantic League. The news was first reported by…
3 Apr 2000: Edgardo Alfonzo #13 of the New York Mets moves to catch the ball during the game against the San Diego Padres at Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York. The Mets defeated the Padres 2-1. Mandatory Credit: David Leeds /Allsport
Former New York Mets second baseman Edgardo Alfonzo has resurfaced as the new manager of the Staten Island FerryHawks of the Independent Atlantic League.
The news was first reported by MLB insider Jon Heyman.
The FerryHawks have a very unique history, and they haven't even played a game yet. They were formed as a response to the borough's loss of the Staten Island Yankees, who were contracted by Major League Baseball when MLB and MiLB decided to truncate the number of Minor League Baseball teams, thus making Richmond County Park, the former home of the SI Yankees, the new home of the FerryHawks.
At the same time when the Somerset Patriots left the Atlantic League at the end of the 2020 season to become the Yankees new Double-A affiliate, it created a vacancy in the Atlantic League for a team in the Tri-State area. The only other team in the area is the Long Island Ducks.
22 Apr 2000: Edgardo Alfonzo #13 of the New York Mets in action during the game against the Chicago Cubs at Shea Stadium in Flushing, New York. The Mets defeated the Cubs 8-3. Mandatory Credit: Ezra O. Shaw /Allsport.
The FerryHawks are one of two teams coming into the Atlantic League over the next two years. Next year a team in Hagerstown, Maryland will begin play.
The FerryHawks owned by Staten Island Entertainment LLC, comprised of Saturday Night Live personalities, Colin Jost, Pete Davidson and Michael Che.
As for Alfonzo, the former New York Mets All-Star was once the manager of the Mets single-A affiliate the Brooklyn Cyclones from 2017 - 2019, winning the New York Penn League Championship that year. There were rumblings this off-season that Alfonzo would be a candidate for Buck Showalter's coaching staff, but nothing materialized.
Alfonzo played 12-years in the Major Leagues, eight of them with the Mets. He was one of the most consistent hitters in the Mets lineup during his eight seasons in Mets blue and orange. A lifetime .284 hitter, Alfonzo hit .292 with 120 homers and 538 RBI with the Mets. He was an All Star in 2000, the year the Mets won the National League Pennant.
Last summer Alfonzo was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame.
